St Christopher's Church And Hall Including Boundary Walls, Craigentinny Road

St Christopher’s Church and Hall, built between 1934 and 1938 (church) and 1934 and 1935 (hall), occupies a prominent corner site. The church is a Neo-Romanesque design with a cruciform plan, constructed of variegated red brick in a common bond, with a fourth course of Flemish headers. Brick eaves courses are present on the gables. The hall abuts the earlier church hall at the southeast corner.

The church’s west elevation is a gable flanked by shallow buttresses and features a tall, tripartite window with brick mullions, the central light being taller than the others. Smaller vestibules lie on either side of the gable with bipartite windows. The south elevation has a pitched-roof entrance porch with a two-leaf timber door and glazed upper portion. Paired gabled transepts feature tall bipartite windows. A tall, narrow, square tower is engaged to the right, with bipartite openings beneath a dentil cornice; it is topped with a decorative, bellcast copper roof. The north elevation mirrors the south, except that the east pitch of the left gable has been replaced with pantiles and extended to the bottom of the nave roof. The east elevation has a single light in the centre of the gable, with single lights to the flanking side aisles.

Inside the church, a timber and glazed screen separates the entrance vestibule. The nave is defined by square brick piers with raised brick detailing and capitals, supporting rendered segmental arches that extend across the transepts. Triangular timber buttresses support a projecting timber wall plate, and a wagon-vaulted timber ceiling covers the space. The left transept houses an organ, with pipes on either side of the chancel. Timber panelling is present in the chancel. The nave has boarded and panelled timber pews. Replacement timber windows, some leaded, are found throughout, with stained glass in the chancel. The roof is pitched, with a pantile easing course, and the bell tower has a concave copper roof with a bluebell-shaped capping.

The church hall is a single-storey, seven-bay, rectangular structure. The east gable has a tripartite window, and the west gable has a bipartite window, both featuring decorative round-arched brick detailing using a herringbone bond infill. The south elevation has tripartite windows in the central three bays, flanked by bipartite windows; advanced gable entrance porches with shallow buttresses are present in the outer bays. A shorter, single-storey, two-bay extension to the north connects internally with the church. Inside the hall, a timber stage is present with a fine, panelled timber wall at the rear, and a large, panelled, folding partition divides the space. The ceiling is vaulted with boarded timber. The hall also has replacement timber windows, some leaded, and a pitched pantile roof with an easing course.

Low, coped, exposed brick boundary walls enclose the site, punctuated by square gate piers with concrete capping and metal gates.