Hope Park And Buccleuch Congregational Church, Hope Park Terrace, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 April 1977. Church.

Hope Park And Buccleuch Congregational Church, Hope Park Terrace, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
drifting-paling-solstice
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 April 1977
Type
Church
Address
Hope Park And Buccleuch Congregational Church, Hope Park Terrace, Edinburgh, EH8 9LZ
OS grid reference
NT 263 725
Coordinates
55.94059, -3.18137
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Hope Park and Buccleuch Congregational Church, built in 1876 by Sutherland & Walker, showcases an elaborate North Italian Romanesque style. The building features a two-tier and basement five-bay frontage, with a railed basement area that includes high-quality ironwork between stone dies. Giant pilasters rise to the level of the springing of the arches in the upper tier. The lower tier has triple-arched windows, while the upper level is marked by overarched bipartites with tympana pierced by circles. The entrance bay on the east side is slightly advanced and raised one stage to form a tower, which includes a projecting round-arched porch with an arcaded parapet. The pedimented tower stage features round-arched and keyblocked triple windows set within angle pilasters and is topped with a French pavilion roof. Inside, the church has a plain galleried interior with a flat ceiling and retains its original furnishings.

Local climate

Hope Park And Buccleuch Congregational Church, Hope Park 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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