St Margaret's Scottish Episcopal Church, Easter Road, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 2002. Church. 1 related planning application.
St Margaret's Scottish Episcopal Church, Easter Road, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- fallen-minaret-wind
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 December 2002
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Hippolyte J Blanc, 1879 with slightly later west transept. Small cruciform gothic church with finnialed fleche at crossing; 3-bay aisless nave with lean-to narthex to southwest; piend-roofed polygonal apse, transept to west and wing to east (forming small school). Moulded eaves course (bracketted to apse), cill course. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings. Hoodmoulded, pointed arched openings. Bays flanked by buttresses.
West (principal) elevation: finialled, gabled porch with griffin label-stops to narthex; circular carved plaque with date (1880) and initials (St P); 2-leaf timber-boarded door with decorative cast iron hinges in roll-moulded and stop-chamfered surround. Small lancet to right. Paired lancets to nave and returns of west transept. Gable of west transept to left with tripartite cusped window circular hoodmoulded vent above.
North elevation: faceted apse with piended roof to centre; triple-lancet window; single lancets to returns. Gabled porch to outer right; timber panelled door in shoulder-arched, roll-moulded, stop-chamfered opening.
South elevation: tripartite window; small pointed-arch vent to gable apex. Leaded glazing to windows . Graded grey slates; terracotta ridge tiles. Stone skews.
Interior: semicircular arches to transepts. Paired lancets in arched recesses to nave. Stained glass to west wall: SS Margaret and Michael, 1914-18 War Memorial by G Brodrick of Twickenham and SS Andrew and Margaret by William Wilson, 1947. Braced timber wagon-roof supported on carved corbels. Timber pulpit, 1818, with elaborately carved gothic detail; timber side-altar with linen-fold panels and carved reredos. Timber panelled organ, 1893 by Eustace Ingram, rebuilt by same firm in 1945.
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