Churchyard With Liston Monument, Gogar Parish Church, 194 Glasgow Road, Edinburgh

The churchyard with Liston Monument is located at 194 Glasgow Road, Edinburgh, and dates from 1890-91. Designed by J.A. Williamson, it incorporates a 16th-century chancel of the original church, which is now used as a transept across the south end. The building is rectangular in plan, featuring a buttressed nave, a square tower at the northwest corner, and transepts at the south end. The former chancel has been re-roofed, with a west porch added and a south gablet.

The exterior is constructed from random whinstone rubble with harl pointing, with harled rubble used for older masonry. White sandstone dressings are used, along with quoins and a base course. Features include chamfered reveals, crowstepped gables, and broad eaves. The windows are predominantly 2-light, round-trefoil windows, with roll-moulded string and cill courses.

The west elevation features a two-stage, square-plan tower. The ground floor has paired windows with a relieving arch above, outlined in whinstone, and a boarded, two-leaf door on the right return. A blank left return is present. The bellcote stage has two arch openings on each elevation. To the right of the tower is a three-bay buttressed nave, with windows terminating in a tall crowstepped gable incorporating 16th-century fabric. A gabled whinstone porch is centrally located, featuring angle buttresses, a pointed arch, a hoodmould and stop-chamfered reveal.

The east elevation includes the 16th-century gable on the outer left, with a relieving arch in sandstone and part of the original east window. The nave is to the right. The south elevation is of harled rubble, with the wallhead raised to a whinstone gablet at the center, incorporating a 2-light window with a trefoil light in the spandrel and a hoodmould. The north elevation has a gable with a large 3-light window and a large rosette in the spandrel, flanked by angle buttresses. Steps lead down to a boiler room in the tower's basement.

Plate glass is used in the lower window panes, while stained glass is incorporated into the trefoil heads and the rosette of the north window. All windows are now fitted with shutters. The grey slate roof is finished with cast-iron cresting featuring trefoil punchings. Older masonry displays shaped skewputts.

The interior is currently used as a cabinetmaker's workshop. It features a wood-boarded roof supported by chamfered sandstone brackets. A gallery at the south end has been partially demolished. A stair and bell have been removed from the tower.

The graveyard contains 18th-century grave monuments. Notable markers include the grave of Alexander Ferguson (1761), the grave of John Bell and Isobel Begg (1724), and an early 20th-century tall granite pier monument on the east side of the church dedicated to James and Frieda Pittendrigh MacGillivray. The monument includes a bronze bas-relief portrait of Frieda, designed by James Pittendrigh MacGillivray, who was Her Majesty’s Sculptor for Scotland.