St Colm's College Including Boundary Walls And Cast Iron Railing Panels, 23 Inverleith Terrace

Gordon Lorimer Wright, 1908. 3-storey, L-plan college and dormitory building in mixed late Arts and Crafts style with Beaux-Art details, set back from street with associated landscaped and terraced garden. Snecked red sandstone squared rubble to (N and W) principal elevations; rendered to SW corner and rear; red sandstone ashlar margins, doorways, canted windows, cills and lintels. Prominent Doric round-arched porch with entablature and scrolled wrought iron gate to N. Irregular fenestration; cat-slide, shouldered, bell-cast dormers.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: integral chapel, with stained glass window of Christ the Light of the World by William Hole. Red sandstone ashlar balustraded garden terrace to W; channelled ashlar piers terminated with fluted urns.

Predominantly 15-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows; transomed lattice windows. Tall squared rubble and rendered chimney stacks. Graded slates; terracotta ridge tiles.

INTERIOR: good Edwardian Arts and Crafts decorative scheme in place. Mahogany stair with carved lion newel posts. Good Arts and Crafts ironmongery throughout. Coffered timber ceiling to chapel.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS PANELS: low stone wall with red sandstone copes rising in quadrant curved sections to form gatepiers. Highly decorative cast-iron panels with curvilinear detailing at intervals along wall.