Church Of The Good Shepherd, 13A Murrayfield Avenue, Edinburgh

The Church of the Good Shepherd, located at 13A Murrayfield Avenue, Edinburgh, was designed by Sir Robert Lorimer and built between 1897 and 1899. It is a squat, single-storey church constructed in a Scots idiom, displaying Perpendicular tracery details. The walls are of coursed, rough Hailes stone, accentuated by polished coursed sandstone buttresses and dressings, including mullions and long and short surrounds. The building features skewes, skewputts, and finials to the gables.

The front (southwest) elevation presents a large, four-centred, six-light window divided by a gabled and finialled central buttress, with a small, louvered opening above the gable. The southeast elevation includes an advanced, gabled entrance porch on the left. The porch features a recessed two-leaf timber door and sandstone flags forming a decorative geometrical pattern above. A small chamfered light is set into the gablehead. There is a bipartite window to the centre, with a small single window to the left and a door to the right; a timber door is set in a pointed-arch opening to the southwest return, and a bipartite traceried window, separated by buttresses, is found in each of the three bays between the porch and the advanced block. The northeast elevation has a piend-roofed block sloping downwards at the far end. The northwest elevation exhibits five regularly disposed windows set in a brick wall.

The windows have leaded lights, which are plain at the southwest end and stained on the side aisles. The roof is covered in grey slate, and the building has cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interior features windows in five bays along the northwest side wall, containing a combination of plain and stained glazing of varying dates. Three windows on the southeast side are stained glass, the work of Margaret Chilton. The cills slope inwards, contrasting with the flat cills of the "temporary" northwest wall. The east window’s three lights depict a Crucifixion by Oscar Paterson, who also designed the porch windows. A lectern, with exquisitely carved naturalistic detailing designed by Lorimer, is located at the front left of the church. The perpendicular screen incorporates elaborately carved cusped tracery. The organ, by Brindley & Foster (dating from 1884), was relocated from a private house in 1905. The chancel features cross-ribbed celure, and there are stone-panelled stalls with carved details above the southeast wall. An original Lorimer drawing of the church, initially conceived with a tower above the vestry and a northwest aisle, hangs on the back wall to the right of a plain leaded southwest window, next to which stands an incised stone font on a fluted Gothic pedestal.