Lochhart Memorial Parish Church And Hall, Albion Road, Edinburgh

The Lochhart Memorial Parish Church and a connected church hall, located on Albion Road in Edinburgh, were constructed in 1927 and 1900 respectively. The church was designed by Jeffrey Waddell and Young in a modern Gothic style, intended to be a cohesive ensemble with the earlier church hall. A northern transept further enhances the building’s composition.

The church is built of squared and snecked sandstone with droved ashlar dressings, featuring chamfered arrises. Architectural details include hoodmoulds with foliate label stops, stylised ashlar buttresses (broad and shallow) with battered coping, and battered cills. The north elevation, facing Albion Place, incorporates a gabled stone porch with a pointed arch doorway containing deeply chamfered stonework, boarded floors with leaded glazing and a tripartite fanlight, topped with a stone cross finial. The main body of the church presents three bays of nave and aisle, with the aisle punctuated by buttresses dividing tripartite windows, and a clerestory above lit by round-arched windows. A gabled transept projects to the northeast, displaying two bays with pointed arch, three-light windows, simple reticulated tracery, a blind vesica in the gablehead, and pinnacles with blind arrowslit detailing.

The western elevation, facing Albion Road, is gabled and features a five-light window with perpendicular tracery, a cill course, a blind gablehead slit, and a stone cross finial, with buttresses mirroring those of the transept. The south elevation includes a door to the aisle, four tripartite windows, and nine round-arched narrow windows to the clerestory above, along with a pointed arch lancet on the aisle return. A single-storey porch connects the church hall to a canted projection on the south side.

The windows are square-paned with leaded glazing, under a steeply pitched grey-green slate roof. The roof features gablet skew blocks and profiled eaves gutters.

Although the interior was not inspected in 1995, it is reported to have stone walls, half-arched aisles with rounded piers, and massive pews. Notable furnishings include a Gothic Communion Table from the Guthrie Memorial Church and a Gothic Screen from the Kirk Memorial Church. A chamber houses an organ built by Evans and Barr of Belfast.

The church hall, situated at a right angle to the east, predates the church itself. It is gabled with depressed arch doors and windows, and an ashlar eaves course. The north gable, facing Albion Place, has a four-light perpendicular traceried window flanked by two blockish buttresses, alongside doorways with boarded doors. The east elevation features bipartite windows, a lower two-bay porch with a piend roof and a canted projection stretching to the west.

The hall exhibits some leaded glazing, often behind metal screens, a grey-green slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, a squat, louvred bellcote with an attenuated finial, and rooflights on the western pitch. Simple wrought-iron railings enclose the property.