St Bride's Community Centre, Orwell Terrace, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 February 1993. Community centre, former parish church. 1 related planning application.

St Bride's Community Centre, Orwell Terrace, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
night-gable-juniper
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
9 February 1993
Type
Community centre, former parish church
Address
St Bride's Community Centre, Orwell Terrace, Edinburgh, EH11 2DZ
OS grid reference
NT 238 728
Coordinates
55.94267, -3.22048
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Bride’s Community Centre comprises a neo-perpendicular aisled church designed by Sydney Mitchell and Wilson in 1908, alongside an earlier church hall built in 1894 by Robert Wilson. The church features a canted south apse and a fleche, with a two-storey porch and single-storey aisles terminating to the southeast with a transept and to the southwest with a hexagonal chapel. The exterior is constructed from squared and snecked rubble with long and short ashlar dressings, chamfered arrises, moulded eaves, and a base course. A modern addition exists to the rear.

To the north is a six-bay, single-storey polychromatic hall, also of squared and snecked rubble with long and short red ashlar dressings. The east elevation, fronting Orwell Terrace, exhibits a two-storey, piend-roofed porch at the right, adjoining the hall. A deeply chamfered pointed arch doorway features polished ashlar, tympanum, and blind tracery; above is a round-headed, hoodmoulded window. A single-storey transept is situated at the outer left, showcasing a traceried three-light window with a pointed arch. The north elevation includes a two-story canted apse with two-light, traceried four-centred windows, a cill course, and a hoodmould acting as an impost course. A catslide roof and stairwell window are visible on the west (rear) elevation, which has a modern flat-roofed extension obscuring part of the aisle.

The hall features pointed arch dormerheads over the second and fifth bays, a steeply pitched roof, and a deeply chamfered doorway at the outer right. An octagonal, slated ventilator fleche with louvring and swept eaves rises from its roof. The interior of the church is characterised by squared and snecked rubble masonry with chamfered ashlar dressings and polygonal columns. It includes an arcaded nave with four-centred arches and a gallery at the rear, alongside a shallow boarded barrel-vault with timber hammerbeams. The aisles have boarded pentice roofs with timber arched braces; the west windows have been blocked. While most fittings have been removed, a memorial plaque for William Andrews remains in the porch. The building features leaded windows, ashlar skews, grey slates, moulded iron gutters, and a low ashlar saddleback wall to the south.

Local climate

St Bride's Community Centre, Orwell Terrace, 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 76% 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 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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