Seafield Crematorium, 20 Seafield Road, Leith, Edinburgh

Seafield Crematorium, built in an inter-war basilican style between 1938 and 1939, is located at 20 Seafield Road, Leith, Edinburgh. The crematorium comprises a two-storey, four-bay nave with a prominent two-storey transeptal entrance porch in the third bay. An apsed end faces southeast, and a single-storey, flat-roofed office wing of curved plan projects to the northeast. The building is constructed of reconstituted granite, featuring a horizontally channelled base course and cill courses to the ground and first-floor windows, with an eaves cornice terminated at the gables by corbels.

The northwest elevation, which serves as the principal facade, features a stylized portico to the right of centre, incorporating an entablature and block pediment over square, chamfered shafts and moulded reveals. A recessed, bracketed stair window is visible. Projecting single-bay offices flank the portico, each with a small bipartite window. Horizontal clerestory windows are located in bays one, two, and four at the first floor, leading to the organ gallery. Integral flanking planters are incorporated into the entrance steps, which are adjacent to a boundary dwarf wall. A three-bay single-storey wing projects to the left.

The northeast elevation displays a projecting central panel at the first floor, containing a narrow vertical opening and an oculus above, flanked by plain chimneys. The southeast elevation was not visible during the 1995 survey. The southwest elevation culminates in a two-tiered apse at the end of the nave (the lower tier housing a projecting ambulatory), with a gablehead above. Two narrow windows are visible to the offices to the left, alongside a narrow slit window to the first-floor gallery.

Metal casement windows with coloured leaded glazing are present on the ground floor openings, along with a 14-pane triangular stair window. Clerestory and skylight windows feature glass brick glazing, while the single-storey wing has plate glass casement windows. The nave is covered by a Roman-tiled pitched roof, with red clay tiles covering the apse. The roof skews include granite coping.

The interior is internally divided by concrete structural members. Original decorative features and fittings remain intact, including a timber-boarded floor and dado panelling. Decorative cast-ironwork is found to the rear of the apse, framing the apse entrance arch and at gateways leading to the ambulatory. The ambulatory features circular skylights. A bowed gallery is positioned at the centre bay of the northwest wall, flanked by organ lofts. A timber door at the northeast end of the centre aisle has a small 5-pane coloured leaded light. A green marble slab table stands in the nave, centering the apse.

A reconstituted granite dwarf wall with coping defines the boundary. The memorial garden incorporates a reconstituted granite wall with coping, adjacent to a round-arched and pedimented gateway with voussoirs and a hooped-iron gate.