Leith School Of Art, 25, 27 North Junction Street, Edinburgh

James Simpson of Leith adapting design by Johan Schroder of Copenhagen, 1868-9. Early Gothic former church with apsidal chancel and 2-stage diminishing gabled tower with spire; offices to rear. Squared and snecked stugged cream sandstone with ashlar dressings. Chamfered arrises; pointed-arch openings to church.

E (NORTH JUNCTION STREET) ELEVATION: gabled front with steps to gabled porch at centre; heavily roll-moulded doorcase with colonnetes and hoodmould; 2-leaf chevron-boarded door with decorative hinges. Hoodmoulded windows flanking porch; pair above with united hoodmould; louvred vesica at apex; cross finial. Tower to right. Set back to left single storey lobby with door and window.

TOWER: window at ground to front with hoodmould; diagonal

buttresses; rectangular lights to outer faces above; date 1868 at front left corner. Belfry with louvred lancets and steep gables to each face; bestial waterspouts at corners. Slender pyramidal spire with alternating bands of fishscale slating and ball finial, and small louvred, keel lucarnes.

N ELEVATION: 4 bays to right of spire; 3rd and 4th blocked and obscured by breeze block addition. Lower apsidal end set back to right.

W ELEVATION: bowed apsidal chancel with pair of windows projecting from gable end of church with vesica at apex.

S ELEVATION: 4 bays of church with gable of lobby at far left.

Fixed multi-pane timber windows. Grey slates with lead flashing; preponderance of large velux skylights. Ashlar coped skews with bracketed skewputts. Cast-iron bracketed gutters and downpipes with some decorative rainwaterheads.

INTERIOR: open scissor-braced timber roof. Floor inserted to create attic studio space. Stained glass windows to chancel. 2-leaf fielded-panel doors to narthex.

OFFICES: adjoined to W (rear) of church, pitched-roof single-storey offices; skewed gable to N with vesica in gablehead. Lean-to porch to S with boarded door in shouldered surround with corresponding 2-pane fanlight. Windows to E.

GATEPIERS, RAILINGS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: pair of stop-chamfered gatepiers to front with bases, pyramidal caps and ball-finials. Modern cast-iron railings on ashlar base. Rubble boundary wall to N with semi-circular coping.