St Paul's Church, 9 Lorne Street, Edinburgh

St Paul's Church, located at 9 Lorne Street in Edinburgh, was designed by J Graham Fairley and constructed between 1884 and 1885, with further work completed in 1903. This early Decorated church is oriented north-south and built from coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. It features an aisleless three-bay nave with stairhall projections of differing designs, lancet windows in the northern bay, and a west window intended as the base for a tower. The transepts and sanctuary at the southern end were deepened in 1903, and halls are situated transversely at the rear.

The north elevation facing Lorne Street has a gable front with stairhalls on either side. The central doorway is flanked by two orders of shafts with foliate caps, a trumeau, and a tympanum featuring three cusped circlets. Flanking lancet windows have linked hoodmoulds, and above them is a large four-light window set in a recessed pointed-arched panel, flanked by colonnettes and divided into two sections with cusped circlet plate tracery, topped with a large cinquefoil. The gablehead includes a vesica and flanking circlets, while massive angle buttresses rise into blind-arcaded octagonal pinnacles with polygonal ashlar caps.

The west stairhall has a piended roof, while the south stairhall is gabled towards Lorne Square, featuring a circular window above three lancets with a straight hoodmould.

The nave has buttressed flanks with a two-tier design, triplet windows below, and simple plate traceried two-light windows above. The transepts are adorned with large untraceried circular windows topped with pointed hoodmoulds over deepening voussoirs.

On the southern rear elevation, there is a smaller circular window at the hall gable. The church features square-leaded-paned glazing in its fixed windows and is topped with a grey slate roof.

Inside, the church has a U-plan gallery supported by columns and a hammerbeam type roof with a tie beam and king posts at the base of the upper arch braces. The elaborate sanctuary, deepened in 1903, includes marble steps, pine panelling, and a divided organ case by Brindley & Foster from 1903. The southern window has five lights with stained glass dating from 1894. Additionally, there is an octagonal pulpit and a red English alabaster communion table featuring a relief of the Last Supper by W. Birnie Rhind, along with a finely crafted angel lectern.

Surrounding the church is a bull-faced sandstone ashlar dwarf boundary wall to the south and west, complemented by plain wrought-iron railings and gates. The square sandstone ashlar gate piers have stop-chamfered corners on the shafts, bases, and pyramidal caps.