Chapel, St Margaret's Convent, 113 Whitehouse Loan, Edinburgh

The chapel at St Margaret's Convent, located at 113 Whitehouse Loan in Edinburgh, was designed by James Gillespie Graham in 1835, with additions made by Archibald Macpherson between 1893 and 1895. This aisled neo-Norman chapel features a later apsidal Gothic eastern end. It is constructed from squared coursed sandstone with polished dressings and has a grey slate roof.

The west end of the chapel is symmetrical with three bays, featuring round-arched openings that are roll-moulded and hoodmoulded. There are steps leading up to the doorway, which has a panelled door, and a tripartite window above it. At the apex, there is a corbelled stone fleche topped with a swept pyramidal roof. The structure includes two angle buttresses with nook-shafts and polygonal stone finials with swept caps. The aisle ends have windows and polygonal angle buttresses with similar finials.

The nave and aisles consist of four bays, with deep-set round-arched windows that have hoodmoulds and label-stops. The apse and Lady Chapel, added between 1893 and 1895, features a polygonal apse with full-height buttresses, a vestry, and a polygonal stair tower to the west, along with the Lady Chapel to the east. The apse has traceried pointed arch windows with hoodmoulds and label stops beneath the parapet, and a similarly detailed window in the eastern Lady Chapel.

Inside, the chapel has circular-section piers that support a four-bay arcade between the nave and aisles. The arcade features saw-tooth details on the cushion capitals and arches. The ceiling is rib-vaulted and made of plaster, adorned with decorative corbels and bosses. The chancel is two bays long with a three-sided apse, also featuring stone rib-vaults and bosses. Behind the elaborately traceried altarpiece, there are pointed arch panels with statues by William Vickers of Glasgow positioned above them. The Lady Chapel reredos was created by George Goldie and executed by Thomas Earp in 1877.

A decorative carved and stained arcaded rood screen, which may have been part of the original fittings, has been removed to the west end, along with stalls of a similar style that were relocated to St Mary's Cathedral. A silver lamp in the chancel, designed by Gillespie Graham and made by Cross & Carruthers of Elm Row in 1837, adds to the interior's significance. There is also a painted Gothic casket containing relics of St Crescentia, designed by A W N Pugin and made by Bonar & Carfare in 1842. The crypt houses the tombs of John Menzies and Bishop Gillis. The chapel features stained glass predominantly depicting figures of saints, dating from the late 19th century.