Bristo Baptist Church, Queensferry Road, Edinburgh

William Paterson, 1932-5. 2-storey obtuse L-plan Anglo-Dutch Renaissance style church with prominent shaped gables and 3-arch stylised Corinthian columned porch. Church oriented S to N with gable end to Queensferry Road, attached church hall to rear (S) oriented E to W. Harled with some sandstone ashlar dressings. Banded cill course at ground floor and corniced eaves course (except to rear (S) elevation). Large shaped gable to N (Queensferry Road) elevation, similar smaller gable breaking wallhead to W Elevation with doorway at ground floor and cartouche (from previous church at Bristo Place).

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: advanced, single storey arcaded Corinthian columned porch at ground floor to N (Queensferry Road); large window above with moulded architrave and bracketed semi-circular broken apex pediment with moulded foliate panel; small arrowslit with shaped surround to gable apex. Similar gabled porch in re-entrant angle to E (Buckingham Terrace) with large shouldered arched window over corniced doorway. Regular fenestration with large 2-storey windows to church, single sandstone mullion to centre; keystoned shouldered arched surrounds. Regular rectangular windows to church hall with raised sandstone ashlar surrounds (except to rear (S) elevation); some narrow rectangular windows and some large timber transomed and mullioned windows to S elevation.

Small pane leaded windows to church; predominantly small pane glazing in timber sash and case windows to church hall. Steeply pitched roof; clay tiles. Small harled stack to rear (S) elevation. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: simple interior believed to contain high combed ceiling and large flat shouldered arch to rear with Art Deco organ screen. Organ 1888 by D and T Hamilton, built for St. James Place Church but rebuilt in Bristo Baptist Church by C. P. Scovell in 1935. Large marble baptismal tank.