Broughton Place Church, Broughton Place, Edinburgh

This is a church, built in 1820-21 by Archibald Elliot, situated on Broughton Place in Edinburgh. It is an example of Classical architecture, designed with a symmetrical, rectangular plan. The building is constructed from polished ashlar, with coursed squared rubble featuring droved margins and quoins on the sides and rear. A dividing band separates the basement from the ground floor, and an eaves course and cornice run along the top of the building, finished with a blocking course. Long and short quoins are present on the rear and side elevations.

The principal, or south-west, elevation is five bays long, with the central three bays slightly advanced, featuring a pilaster on each side. The central three bays contain double timber panelled doors with fanlights showcasing a radiating glazing pattern above. Extending from the advanced section is a Greek Doric portico with a stylobate and stop-fluted columns supporting a Greek Doric entablature and pediment.

The north-east rear elevation is three bays wide, with a timber door in the left bay. An advanced organ bay is centrally located, featuring a canted lower section and a cantilevered upper section with rounded corbels below and a rendered band with a complex moulded string course at the base. The bowed flanks each have a single round-arched window. The north-west and south-east side elevations are each four bays long, with pairs of antae marking the corners at ground and first floor level. Blind windows are incorporated into the outer right bays on both side elevations at both ground and first floor levels.

The windows generally feature 8-pane upper sashes and 6-pane lower sashes within timber sash and case frames in the round-arched openings, while those in the segmental-arched openings have 16-pane glazing. The organ bay windows have 14-pane fixed glazing. The building is capped with a platform roof covered in grey slate. There are wallhead stacks located centrally at the rear and on the south-east elevation, and one on the north-west elevation.

The interior features a square vestibule with gallery stair halls flanking it to the left and right, separated by round-headed arches and fluted doorcases. A Tudor double memorial panel is above the doorway to the basement stair in the central vestibule. The main auditorium on the ground floor is square with an apsidal entrance end. A U-shaped gallery extends to first floor level and is supported by cast iron columns with foliated capitals. Romanesque timber blind arcading forms the gallery parapet, with a cavetto moulding beneath. Doric pilasters and an entablature frame the organ aperture at the north-east end. The ceiling incorporates a panelled border and an ornate plaster rose at the centre.