Hall And Offices, Morningside Baptist Church, 18 Morningside Road, Churchhill, Edinburgh

MacGibbon & Ross, 1872-4. Rectangular-plan aisleless gothic church with SE tower with stone spire, church hall and offices to NW, modern additions flanking to S and N. Cream sandstone, squared and snecked stugged rubble with ashlar dressings. Pointed-arch openings; off-set buttresses; hoodmoulds and label stops to principal openings; plate tracery of 2 lancets with oculus above; ashlar mullions.

NAVE: E wall (liturgical west) with lean-to vestibule broached by gabled porch (now blocked as window), doorway with nook-shafts and moulded arch; projection to right with rectangular tripartite window, steep half-piend roof and shouldered drum stack on return; tall window in gablehead with large rose window with heavy tracery; arrowslit window in finialled gablehead; pinnacled buttress to right; tower (see below) to left. W wall with 2 tall bipartite windows divided by buttresses; rose window above; rectangular louvred window to gablehead. S elevation with single storey flat-roofed modern vestry; 3 tall nave windows with plate tracery divided by buttresses. N elevation with tall gabled church hall and offices to right; single storey modern addition to left, 2 windows with plate tracery and rectangular bipartite window above.

TOWER: 2-stage with tall ashlar spire; set-back buttresses; battered base course; tall 1st stage to ridge height with blind arrowslits and secondary doorway to S face. 2nd stage with recessed tripartite arrowslit windows divided by slender shafts. Top stage with tall octagonal stone spire framed by slender pinnacles; louvred bipartite window set in finialled gable with nook-shafts to each face at base of spire; 4 ashlar lucarnes above.

CHURCH HALL AND OFFICES: tall gabled church hall adjoining N elevation with single and bipartite windows; 2 lancets with oculus in spandrel in gablehead to E.

Lead-pane glazing to nave. Slate roof with metal flashings.

INTERIOR: gutted by fire in 1973 and rebuilt.

Low rubble wall to front with octagonal coped gatepiers.