St James Parish Church And Gate Piers, 2A Rosefield Place, Edinburgh

St James Parish Church is a Perpendicular Gothic style church built between 1910 and 1912 by G Mackie Watson, with later additions in 1934 by F E B Blanc. The church was originally left unfinished, with brick blocking to the transepts. It features aisles and a transept projecting to the southeast, and a gallery at the south end. The exterior is constructed of snecked red sandstone rubble with red sandstone polished ashlar dressings, with brickwork visible where the transepts were left incomplete.

The southwest elevation, facing Rosefield Place, has a broad, geometric-traceried window at the centre, with a hoodmould that extends as a string course at eaves level. The lower third of the window is blanked out to conceal the gallery within. The southeast elevation provides the main entrance, a projecting porch with a panelled, pointed-arched doorway. Bays two to four are divided by buttresses, with narrow traceried windows at the first floor. Bays four and five are advanced as full-height transepts, each with a gabled roof. A single-story projection, with a parapet, features a pointed-arched doorway and window, both with a moulded string course. The rear, northeast elevation, presents a polygonal apse with two narrow, traceried windows on each face. The northwest elevation features a blank bay to the right and windows divided by buttresses. The unbuilt transept is blocked with brick and has pointed arches.

The windows are predominantly leaded clear-glass with plate tracery in the smaller windows and geometric designs in the larger; stained glass is present in the apse. The roof is covered with grey slate.

Inside, the pointed-arch arcade, chancel arch, and aisle arches alternate between red and cream stone. The roof is timber-boarded and braced. Features include a glazed vestibule screen, a vestibule with a timber-boarded ceiling and terracotta tiling, and pine pews with brass umbrella stands. The southeast transept is now used as a chapel and has a timber-boarded dado. A 1934 organ, by Rushworth and Dreaper of Liverpool, stands on the northwest side of the chancel. A timber pulpit, communion table, and lectern were presented in memory of Jane Foote Hunter in November 1934. A Caen stone font, originally from St Cuthbert’s, Princes Street, sits on a pedestal with carved cherubic heads, with the inscription "Suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not" around the rim. Windows on the northeast side are dedicated to the memory of Major Stewart Grant Ogilvy JP, MD, by John Blyth, 1949.

The church is surrounded by gate piers and boundary walls constructed of bull-faced squared and snecked red sandstone with polished ashlar coping. The gate piers have a trefoil-section at the top. Brick boundary walls run along the sides.