Bristo Baptist Church, Queensferry Road, Edinburgh

Bristo Baptist Church, located on Queensferry Road in Edinburgh, was designed by William Paterson and built between 1932 and 1935. This two-storey church features an obtuse L-plan and is designed in the Anglo-Dutch Renaissance style. It has prominent shaped gables and a three-arch porch supported by stylised Corinthian columns. The church is oriented from south to north, with its gable end facing Queensferry Road, and it includes an attached church hall at the rear, oriented east to west. The exterior is harled with some sandstone ashlar dressings, featuring a banded cill course at the ground floor and a corniced eaves course, except on the rear elevation. The northern elevation has a large shaped gable, while a smaller gable on the western elevation features a ground floor doorway and a cartouche from a previous church at Bristo Place.

The advanced, single-storey porch on the northern side has Corinthian columns and an arcade at the ground floor. Above the porch is a large window with a moulded architrave and a bracketed semi-circular broken apex pediment, which includes a moulded foliate panel. There is also a small arrowslit with a shaped surround at the gable apex. A similar gabled porch is located in the re-entrant angle to the east, featuring a large shouldered arched window above a corniced doorway. The church has regular fenestration with large two-storey windows, each with a single sandstone mullion in the centre and keystoned shouldered arched surrounds. The church hall has regular rectangular windows with raised sandstone ashlar surrounds, except on the rear elevation, which also features some narrow rectangular windows and large timber transomed and mullioned windows.

The church's windows are predominantly small pane leaded, while the church hall has timber sash and case windows with small pane glazing. The roof is steeply pitched and covered with clay tiles, and there is a small harled stack on the rear elevation. The rainwater goods are made of cast iron.

Inside, the church has a simple interior that is believed to feature a high combed ceiling and a large flat shouldered arch at the rear, which supports an Art Deco organ screen. The organ, built in 1888 by D and T Hamilton for St. James Place Church, was rebuilt in Bristo Baptist Church by C. P. Scovell in 1935. Additionally, there is a large marble baptismal tank.