St Andrew's And St George's Church, George Street, Edinburgh

St Andrew's and St George's Church is a two-story neo-classical church built between 1782 and 1784, with the steeple added in 1787 and subsequent internal alterations in 1953 and 1976-9. The church has a vaulted basement and an elliptical plan, featuring a pedimented portico and a slender steeple. Constructed primarily of redhall sandstone ashlar, the front half is droved while the rear is coursed rubble, with polished Craigleith dressings and steps.

The front of the church is marked by a tetrastyle Corinthian portico with an oculus in the pediment, originally intended to hold statues. A polished ashlar frontispiece with three bays includes a central doorpiece with a moulded architrave and segmental pediment, surmounted by a two-leaf panelled door and a four-pane fanlight. Flanking this are similar blind openings with triangular pediments. At the first floor, a central architraved window is flanked by matching blind windows. The main body of the church has depressed arched windows at ground level and round-headed windows at the first floor, topped by a moulded cornice and blocking course. Side entrances feature heavy pilastered doorpieces with open pediments, each containing a depressed arch doorway with a two-leaf flush-panelled door and a six-pane fanlight.

The roof is covered in grey slates.

The steeple is four-stage in design. A square plinth and pedestal features projecting pedimented central faces adorned with swagged husks flanking clock faces, with ribbon and husk detailing between. The octagonal second stage allows for urns at the corners. Above that, projecting pilastered faces contain arched, louvred openings. The next stage features Ionic columns and arched openings, alternating between louvred and blind. The steeple culminates in a panelled octagonal spire with three tiers of oculi and a weathervane finial.

The interior of the church showcases fine plasterwork and joinery. Windows have deeply splayed soffits. A U-plan panelled gallery, supported by Ionic columns, includes original tiered pews and a swagged frieze. The flat ceiling is decorated with concentric ovals surrounded by husk garlands. Ground-floor box pews remain beneath the balcony, and the pulpit has been altered. Esme Gordon added plaster ornament to the vestibule ceiling. The organ, originally built by Peter Conacher of Huddersfield in 1881 and rebuilt by Rushworth & Dreaper in 1967, has a fine tripartite case and is located at the centre of the gallery. Six windows on the north side were created by Ballantine in 1890, and there are windows on the south side by Alfred A Webster (1913) and Douglas Strachan (1934). The crypt has been adapted for social use by Robert Hurd, including a new staircase from a glazed vestibule extension.

Spearhead cast-iron railings enclose the basement area and steps to the side doors, accompanied by wrought-iron lamp standards.