Churchyard, St Mark's Episcopal Church, St Mark's Place, Edinburgh

1826 with later alterations by Hay and Henderson, 1892. 3-bay rectangular-plan Neo-Classical church with churchyard. Polished ashlar to NE elevation, squared and snecked sandstone with droved ashlar dressings to original side elevations; bull-faced squared and snecked sandstone to later chancel to rear. Broad base course to outer bays of front elevation, broad entablature with dentilled cornice and blocking course.

NE (PORTOBELLO HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: semicircular bowed bay to centre with 4 engaged Roman Doric columns; 4 ashlar steps with wrought-iron handrails; 3-leaf panelled door to centre with ovoid-paned fanlight above; blinded windows flanking. Consoled and pedimented windows to outer bays with balustraded aprons, round-arched lights set in timber panels. Doric pilasters clasping angles.

SE (ST MARK'S PLACE) ELEVATION: 4-bay with later 2-bay addition. Round-arched windows at ground, segmental-arched windows above with round, leaded openings. Round-arched architraved doorway to gabled porch in bay to right of later addition; boarded door with semicircular plate glass fanlight above; window at 1st floor with rusticated architrave and leaded glass to segmental-arched opening. Window at 1st floor outer left.

SW (REAR) ELEVATION: Venetian window to centre with rusticated architrave.

NW ELEVATION: as SE elevation except blank bays to later chancel.

Leaded windows, some with stained glass. Grey slate piend and platformed roof to original with flat-headed dome above semicircular bay to centre of principal elevation; piended slate roof to chancel to rear.

INTERIOR: 3 glazed doors with original brass fittings; multi-paned cupola to stairwell; decorative plasterwork to dome; stone stairs with original cast-iron balustrade; deep-set doors as entrances at 1st floor to gallery with reeded to architraves; Grecian plaster cornice with later panelling to ceiling. Gallery to NE; boarded dado; timber balustraded rail. Pews mostly removed. Modern vestibule. Marble plaques to each side between 3rd and 4th bay. Stained glass windows to 4th bay on each side dated 1892, SE side- David and Jonathan; NW side- Good Samaritan by Ballantine and Son. Depressed arch with carved corbels to chancel which is raised. Panelled stone font; modern timber lectern to each side of chancel arch. Oak altar with tripartite pilastered and pedimented brown marble reredos incorporating gravestone of 1843 and 1847, beneath stained glass window of crucifixion and saints of 1919. Organ to right of chancel by D and T Hamilton, 1872, rebuilt by Ingram, 1899 and later in 1972 by Ronald L Smith.

GATES, GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: corniced pedestrian gateways to outer let and right to High Street; quadrant walls to central carriage gateway; cast-iron gates (now cut down to half size). Coped rubble walls to side and rear.

GRAVEYARD: well-planted with gravestones along boundary wall; cast-iron to SW.