St Benets Archiepiscopal Chapel, 42 Greenhill Gardens, Edinburgh

St Benets Archiepiscopal Chapel, located at 42 Greenhill Gardens in Edinburgh, was designed by Robert Weir Schultz between 1905 and 1907. This private chapel is built in a Byzantine style and features a Greek cross-plan layout, complete with a narthex, aisles, apse, and dome. The exterior is constructed from squared and snecked sandstone, accented with polished ashlar dressings. The sides and rear of the chapel have round-headed windows adorned with rope hoodmouldings.

On the north entrance elevation, the chapel has a three-bay narthex, with the gabled body of the church and dome visible behind it. The central bay features an architraved round-arched doorway with a Celtic carved keystone and impost blocks, leading to a deep-set two-leaf boarded door with decorative iron hinges and fittings. The flanking bays contain paired windows set in round-arched panels, each decorated with carved Celtic crosses in the tympani. The octagonal drum above has round-headed panels, each with narrow round-arched windows.

The south elevation showcases a canted apse at the center, with a single window on each face. The east elevation is connected to a house by 1930s offices. The west elevation features a gabled tripartite window at the center, with a single window to the outer right and two windows to the outer left. The narthex and dome have fixed leaded narrow windows, while the chapel is adorned with stained glass windows. The roofs are finished in green copper, with a pitched roof over the chapel, a lean-to roof over the narthex, and a copper dome. The original lead rainwater goods, including hoppers, downpipes, and brackets, are still in place.

Inside, the chapel boasts an outstanding classical Italianate style, featuring geometrical parquet flooring, dado panelling, and carved panels. The interior includes a panelled door and domed and vaulted spaces supported by half timber, half plaster columns, fluted columns, and pilasters, all topped with gilded capitals. Decorative plasterwork adorns the barrel vaults. Notable furnishings include a podium, lectern, and missal stand created by Messrs Scott and Hunter, as well as a prie-dieu designed by Schultz and executed by Ernest Gimson. The stained glass in the apse and west end consists of three lights each, crafted by Gabriel Loire of Chartres in 1969.

The chapel is also accompanied by gatepiers and boundary walls, featuring two obelisk gatepiers and quadrant walls along Greenhill Gardens. The site includes a high coped rubble boundary and mutual walls, as well as a sundial pedestal that was formerly located in the grounds of Grange House.