Saint Paul's Newington Church, South Clerk Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 April 1977. Church. 4 related planning applications.
Saint Paul's Newington Church, South Clerk Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- little-basalt-primrose
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1977
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Saint Paul's Newington Church, South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9NZ
- OS grid reference
- NT 263 725
- Coordinates
- 55.94049, -3.18023
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Saint Paul's Newington Church, located on South Clerk Street in Edinburgh, is a plain rectangular minimum Gothic church designed by David Cousin in 1843. The church was raised to accommodate galleries in 1847 and was refronted by Henry and MacLennan between 1907 and 1908. The exterior features a late Scots Gothic style with a nave and aisles front that is boldly buttressed. It includes a central round-arched doorpiece with three orders and a four-light window above it. The flat-roofed aisle fronts have lancet windows with mouchettes, and the building is constructed of good snecked rubble with polished ashlar dressings and parapets. The flanks have one-window returns and display high-quality sculptured detail, while the original flanks from 1843 are plain. The church has a two-tier treatment with four bays, and the upper windows feature depressed arches and Y-tracery, topped by a slated roof. Inside, the church has full-height four-centred arcades supported by cast-iron columns.
Local climate
Saint Paul's Newington Church, South Clerk Street, Edinburgh sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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