Church Of The Sacred Heart, 26 Lauriston Street, Edinburgh

Father Richard Vaughan, 1860, with some later alterations. Broad pedimented 3-bay classical facade (cross finial at apex), set back from the street. Polished cream sandstone ashlar. Base course; cornices between ground and upper levels and below pediment. Round-arched door and window openings with key- and impost-blocks. Entrance in advanced centre bay; 2-leaf timber storm door (glazed 2-leaf timber inner door) with fanlight above, flanked by Roman Doric columns; broken segmental pediment containing shield with gilded sunburst emblazoned IHS above ribbon inscribed 'AD MAJOREM DEI GLORIAM'; outer portions of bay channelled at ground level, and containing tall narrow round-headed windows in unmoulded openings (lower part blocked); large round-arched window above door flanked by coupled Doric pilasters. 2-leaf timber-panelled doors with fanlights above in outer bays; round-arched windows above; channelled pilaster strips to outer edges of bays at ground level, Doric pilasters above; recessed outermost portions of bays polished ashlar.

INTERIOR: glazed (small leaded panes with stained glass) screen with glazed double doors between vestibule and church; coloured panels above doors; arched entrance to small frescoed space off to left. Simple rectangular wagon-vaulted aisless nave, lined with Ionic pilasters (plaster swags in entablature) and lit by 4 domed lanterns. Gilt-framed painted roundels between alternate ribs in roof. 14 large paintings on canvas between pilasters in nave (see Notes). Apsidal chancel (by Archibald Macpherson, 1884) and flanking chapels (possibly by S Henbest Capper, 1895). Rear gallery with organ above glazed screen to rear.

BOUNDARY WALL, GATEPIERS, GATES AND RAILINGS: coursed stone coped boundary wall with spear-headed cast-iron railings; pyramidally-capped ashlar gatepiers; cast-iron gates.