St Bride's Community Centre, Orwell Terrace, Edinburgh

Sydney Mitchell and Wilson, 1908, neo-perpendicular aisled church, and Robert Wilson, 1894, church hall. Church with canted S apse and fleche, 2-storey porch, single storey aisles terminating to SE with transept, to SW with hexagonal chapel; squared and snecked rubble with long and short ashlar dressings, chamfered arrises; moulded eaves; base course; modern addition to rear.

6-bay single storey polychromatic hall to N. Squared and snecked rubble with long and short red ashlar dressings.

E (ORWELL TERRACE ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: at right (adjoining hall to far right) 2-storey piend-roofed porch; 2-leaf boarded door in deeply chamfered pointed arch polished ashlar doorway, tympanum and spandrels with blind tracery; 2-light round-headed hoodmoulded window above. At outer left single storey transept; traceried 3-light window with pointed arch; wallheads coped and waved. 3-bay aisle with pentice roof to centre. 4-bay clerestorey above, with paired rectangular 3-light perpendicular traceried windows.

N ELEVATION: 2-storey (ground falls to SW) canted apse with 2-light traceried 4-centred windows; cill course, hoodmould continuing as impost course. E transept with single window and door. W chapel hexagonal, narrow windows with cill course.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: modern flat-roofed extension obscures aisle; clerestorey as before. Catslide roof and window to stair at N end.

HALL: 6-bay. Base course. 2nd and 5th bays breaking eaves in pointed arch dormerheads; steeply pitched roof; deeply chamfered doorway at outer right; octagonal slated ventilator fleche with louvring at base and swept eaves to attenuated roof.

Leaded windows, ashlar skews, grey slates, moulded iron gutters. Low ashlar saddleback wall to S.

INTERIOR: squared and snecked rubble masonry with chamfered ashlar dressings and polygonal columns. Arcaded nave (4-centred arches) with gallery at rear; shallow boarded barrel-vault with timber hammerbeams. Aisles with boarded pentice roofs with timber arched braces; W windows blocked. Most fittings stripped out but plaque in memory of William Andrews retained in porch.