Stenhouse Saughton Church, Gorgie Road, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 October 1989. Church. 2 related planning applications.

Stenhouse Saughton Church, Gorgie Road, Edinburgh

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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 October 1989
Type
Church
Address
Stenhouse Saughton Church, Gorgie Road, Edinburgh, EH11 3AR
OS grid reference
NT 218 715
Coordinates
55.93084, -3.25254
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Stenhouse Saughton Church, designed by architect T Aikman Swan in 1935, is a Gothic-style building with Scots vernacular detailing. It features a cruciform layout with a polygonal apse to the south and a northwest tower. To the east, there is a lower hall range built in 1912.

The church is constructed from snecked cream sandstone with polished ashlar dressings, margins, and quoins. The northern elevation showcases a prominent central gable with an ogee-headed window framed by moulded architraves. To the right, there is a square three-stage tower with a recessed ground-level door and a louvred belfry stage topped by a shallow pitch pyramidal copper roof.

Inside, the church has a four-bay nave with side aisles and a clearstorey, featuring arched windows with small-pane leaded glazing. The northwest porch has a moulded archivolt surrounding recessed double leaf doors. The interior includes panelled low-backed pews, brick walls, and arcaded side aisles, along with a timber panelled ceiling and a dado panelled apse with elders' pews.

There are two detached halls to the southwest of the church. The southern hall is roughcast with a snecked ashlar porch from the 1930s, while the western hall, a five-bay rectangle dated 1912, is made of stugged ashlar and features round arched windows and a slate roof with a central fleche.

The boundary walls consist of a low coped ashlar wall that supports simple cast-iron railings.

Local climate

Stenhouse Saughton Church, Gorgie Road, Edinburgh sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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