St Philip's Parish Church, 14 Abercorn Terrace, Edinburgh

St Philip’s Parish Church is an Early English Gothic church built between 1875 and 1877 by John Honeyman, with a later hall addition by J Graham Fairley in 1924-1925. It occupies a prominent corner site in Edinburgh. The church is constructed of stugged ashlar with droved ashlar dressings. A battered base course is present, along with a moulded cill course to the ground floor windows and houldmoulds to the pointed-arch windows.

The southwest elevation, facing Abercorn Terrace, features three bays. A boarded door is centrally located within a moulded and columned doorpiece, topped by a gablet. Above the door is a large traceried window, and a small niche is set into the gablehead. A buttress is situated to the left of the central bay, and a window is positioned to the outer left, alongside a single-story aisle. A square-section tower stands to the outer right, with set-back buttresses and a variety of pointed-arch openings. The largest of these is located beneath the eaves course, and is louvered and traceried. A tall, lucarned broach-spire, topped with a cast-iron finial, rises above the tower, giving the steeple a height of 175 feet.

The southeast elevation, on Brunstane Road North, has six bays, with a later, four-bay, single-story addition to the northeast, built in 1926. The tower, as on the southwest elevation, is on the outer left. Windows are present in each bay of the aisle, with buttresses between each bay, and bipartite windows at the first floor. A porch occupies the bay to the outer right, with a blank space above it on the first floor. The addition’s design includes a moulded string course above the ground floor, topped with a coped parapet. The third bay is slightly advanced at eaves level to the parapet wall and features carved stone to the centre, along with a two-leaf boarded door and a segmental-arch three-pane fanlight above. Bipartite leaded windows are situated to the left of the centre, with a single window in between. Narrow windows are located on the ground and first floors of the bay to the outer right, and a half-round-arched doorpiece contains a boarded door.

The windows on the southeast elevation have plate tracery, the smaller windows on the southwest elevation have plate tracery, and larger windows and the louvered openings to the tower display geometric tracery. The roof is grey slated, with a flat roof on the later addition to the northeast.

The interior of the church features a panelled and boarded ceiling to the vestibule, along with three bipartite leaded stained glass windows. Clustered columns with foliate capitals support a pointed-arch arcade to the nave. The aisles have a timber boarded dado, and contain fine stained glass windows, some depicting figures from Biblical stories and others featuring geometric patterns. A large window is located at the northeast end, designed by Messrs Adam and Small of Glasgow; funding for this window was provided by the Young Men's Morning Fellowship Association. A window above the southwest entrance is dedicated to Captain Shephard and Andrew Wanchope. A gallery, with stop-chamfered panelling and a boarded dado, is present on the southwest side. Timber pews remain in situ, and a large window, dated 1877, is located on the southwest side. The font is made of Caen stone, carved with quatrefoil panels and Gothic writing to the rim, and sits on a red marble stand. A timber communion table and a modern lectern are also present. The octagonal pulpit, carved from finely carved Caen stone with red marble columns, was designed by John Honeyman in 1885 and includes figures.

Sandstone boundary walls with drooved ashlar coping enclose the site, alongside two original cast-iron lamp-standards that light the front.