Seventh Day Adventist Church, Bristo Place, Edinburgh

The Seventh Day Adventist Church, located at 2-3 Bristo Place in Edinburgh, was designed by Sydney Mitchell and Wilson and built between 1899 and 1900. This two-storey, four-bay Scots Renaissance church and office building is made of smooth red sandstone ashlar, which has been painted at the ground level. The bays are separated by pilasters that are channelled at the ground floor and fluted Ionic pilasters on the first floor. There are continuous cornices at both the ground floor and eaves.

The entrance features a recessed two-leaf timber panelled door with leaded glass, set within a decorative fanlight and a key-blocked round-arched surround topped with a broken pediment that includes a cartouche on the outer left. Decorative wrought-iron gates are also present. The second bay from the left contains a three-light mullioned and transomed window, while there is a two-bay shop to the right. The first floor boasts four tall round-arched windows with geometric tracery and clear leaded glass. A blind oculus is found in the central shaped wallhead gable, which has strapwork decoration that has been effaced, flanked by a parapet. The building features a pitched roof with a gablet roof behind the pediment and two gables at the rear, forming an F-plan.

The upper lights of the shop windows are fitted with small-pane leaded glazing, and the roof is covered with grey slates, with end stacks.

Inside, as seen in 2000, there are leaded lights in the vestibule screen. The ground and basement levels contain offices and former shops. A fine staircase features green glazed Art Nouveau dado tiling, iron balusters, and a timber handrail. The church area on the first floor has L-plan galleries, a vaulted roof with Tudor-arched ribs, a modillioned cornice, and decorative corbels supporting the ribs. The tiered galleries have bracketed timber fronts, and there are two Tudor arches with a mutual column in the upper side aisle. A later glazed screen separates the lower side aisle, and the dado is boarded. The pulpit is pilastered, with an arched and corniced wall panel behind it. The interior also includes timber pews, a boxed immersion pool, and a pipe organ located in the main gallery, which was made by Gray and Davidson in 1900.