Episcopal Church, 8 Hopetoun Road, South Queensferry is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1971. Church.

Episcopal Church, 8 Hopetoun Road, South Queensferry

WRENN ID
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Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 February 1971
Type
Church
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Episcopal Church on Hopetoun Road, South Queensferry, dates back to around 1450 and is a notable example of 15th-century Gothic architecture. It was restored in 1889 by Seymour and Kinross, and subsequently underwent further restoration work between 1999 and 2000. Originally constructed as a larger church, the western nave was demolished around 1875, and a western porch was added in 1937. The surviving elements include the nave (originally a choir), a tower, and a baptistery (originally the south transept). The church is built of squared and coursed rubble.

The south elevation features a low, round-arched doorway in the centre of the nave wall, flanked by two pointed-arched windows with Y-tracery, featuring cusped single lights. A scratched mass-dial is visible at the southeast corner. The projecting baptistery has a crowstepped gable and a central rectangular window with reticulated tracery. A single cusped window is set into each return side. Behind the baptistery is a blind tower with a stair projection at the northwest angle and a belfry facing east.

The east elevation also has a crowstepped gable, with a large, pointed, three-light lancet window beneath a hoodmould. An empty round-headed niche above contains a series of amorial shields and a projecting canopy. Flanking the window are single-light, cusped windows.

The north elevation has a single-light, cusped window to the left of the nave wall, and a single-storey rubble addition in the centre. The tower, divided into four stages, is visible to the right, with a round-headed arched door and slit windows. Rubble construction at the second stage indicates a former connection to the original nave wall.

The west elevation incorporates a modern, single-storey porch built of square and snecked rubble with ashlar quoin dressings. Two single-light, pointed-arched windows are present, alongside a pointed-arched doorway facing south, and a single pointed-arched window facing north. The rounded head of the arch over the porch marks the original entrance from the nave to the tower and choir. A statue base sits above, and the profile of the original nave roof is still visible. Slim lights are positioned in the upper levels, and a turnpike tower is located at the northwest corner.

The nave has a stone-slab roof on a rubble bed, with a slate easing course. The tower, baptistery, and north outshot have Carmyle sandstone roofs, with Caithness slate used for repairs.

Inside, the nave is covered by a pointed barrel vault. Features include a sedilla, a piscina, an aumbry, and memorials to the Dundas family. A new floor and windows have been installed in the west wall. The tower features a round barrel vault and round arches on three sides. The Rosebery Coat of Arms is displayed over the baptistery arch, a door in the northwest corner leads to the turnpike stair, and an octagonal font was designed by Sir Robert Lorimer. New glass doors dedicated to Ian Smith are in the baptistery, and various tombstones are present. All the stained glass windows are dedicated to members of the Dundas family.

Coped rubble boundary walls enclose the site.

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