Hall, St Anne's Parish Church, St John's Road, Edinburgh

St Anne's Parish Church, located on St John's Road in Edinburgh, was designed by P McGregor Chalmers and built between 1911 and 1913. Later additions include a hall and various rooms at the rear. The church is an Italian Romanesque style building with a near-rectangular plan and seven bays. It features a central nave-gable flanked by lean-to side-aisles which form gabled side-chapels to the east; a semi-circular, five-sided apse surmounted by a semi-dome to the east; and a rectangular-plan, gabled hall adjoining at the southeast.

The church is constructed of hammer-dressed coursed pink sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Architectural details include a base course, vertical pilaster divisions at ground level, narrow arched openings, a dentiled cornice, a stepped frieze at the gable heads, and cruciform finials.

The south elevation features steps leading up to an advanced entrance porch on the left, with a two-leaf timber panelled door. The door is flanked by a carved architrave, a semi-circular tympanum, a hoodmould, and columns with carved capitals. There are three single windows to the side aisle. A single-story re-entrant angle porch with a timber door is also present, alongside three single windows to the side-chapel. Seven sets of paired clerestory windows are found above the nave.

The east elevation displays a five-bay apse with moulded cill courses and a blind tripartite arcade. The flanking chapels have a centrally placed pair of windows each. To the outer right are the church hall and subsidiary rooms.

The west elevation has three windows to the nave, a cill course, and single windows to the flanking side aisles. The church hall and subsidiary rooms adjoin to the outer left.

The north elevation mirrors the south elevation, with the exception of the absence of entrance porches, and includes the church hall and subsidiary rooms.

The church hall at the rear was completed in 1930, and the Guild Room was doubled in size in 1932 by T Bowhill Gibson, both in a similar style and material to the main church.

The church features heavy leaded windows containing stained glass and skylights. The roof is covered in grey slate, with raised stone skews and skewputts.

The interior is continuously arcaded, with a pair of clerestory windows over each arch, supported by a series of square piers and columns. The column capitals are richly carved, each depicting four symbols representing themes such as Christian Life, Christ, the Children of the Bible and the Trinity. The domed ceiling of the vestibule rests upon four carved corbel stones symbolic of Praise – a Viol, Harp, Organ, and Pipe. Thirteen stained glass windows of heavy leadwork are by Gordon Webster (three by his father), and porch windows were added by William Wilson in 1947. The chancel floor is made of draughtboard pattern marble from Greece and Iona and includes a timber pulpit and pews.

Boundary walls constructed of coped rubble sandstone enclose the property. A post box is located on the south side; square-plan gate piers with pitched caps define the entrance, alongside cast iron gates and railings. A black scrolled iron lantern street-light is positioned to the west of the church.