St Salvador's Episcopal Church, 61 Saughton Mains Street is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 September 2013. Church.
St Salvador's Episcopal Church, 61 Saughton Mains Street
- WRENN ID
- leaning-render-blackthorn
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 September 2013
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NT 210 716
- Coordinates
- 55.9312, -3.26497
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Salvador's Episcopal Church, built in 1938 by Tarbolton and Ochterlony, is an irregular-plan neo-Romanesque church featuring a prominent square-plan tower with a broached spire on the entrance (east) elevation. The church has an entrance porch to the north and a flat-roofed side chapel (Lady Chapel) to the south, creating a T-plan layout. The tower includes a projecting gabletted stair tower at the south corner and a corbelled concrete band course. A rusticated stone cross adorns the front of the tower. The exterior is rendered with concrete and has chamfered stone dressings. The entrance porch has pointed arched paired windows with leaded glazing, while the nave features three paired pointed arched windows with quatrefoils and three trefoils in the side chapel. The west gable is supported by four capped strip buttresses, with the outer two being flying buttresses. A moulded eaves course completes the design.
Inside, the church showcases a good contemporary decorative scheme, highlighted by an unusual three-section barrel-vaulted concrete roof structure. The interior is rendered and features a pointed arch flanked by side doorways leading to the chancel, which has a vaulted ceiling and an exposed stone arch with a crucifix. The stone window surrounds and an early 20th-century reredos screen add to the character, along with a marble altar table and flooring, while the rest of the flooring is terrazzo tiled. A screen from the side chapel has been reused from an earlier related hall that was demolished. The tower contains a single room at the top, and later 20th-century alterations have created single-storey facilities against the west gable.
The boundary walls consist of rendered dwarf walls with hedging and paired rounded gatepiers featuring rounded circular caps on the east front elevation, complemented by a taller rubble stone wall along the south boundary. Simple metal gates provide access.
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