St Columba's Parish Church, Blackhall, Queensferry Road, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Church. 2 related planning applications.

St Columba's Parish Church, Blackhall, Queensferry Road, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
heavy-eave-wren
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Type
Church
Address
St Columba's Parish Church, Blackhall, Queensferry Road, Edinburgh, EH4 3QW
OS grid reference
NT 219 746
Coordinates
55.9582, -3.25219
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Columba's Parish Church, located on Queensferry Road in Edinburgh, was built between 1899 and 1900 and designed by P McGregor Chalmers. The church features a Romanesque style and is constructed from snecked rubble. It includes a nave with a clerestory and an aisle, as well as an apsidal sanctuary. An unfinished northwest tower was added to the nave by J. Jeffrey Waddell in 1935.

Local climate

St Columba's Parish Church, Blackhall, Queensferry Road, Edinburgh receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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