Warrender Church, 102 Whitehouse Loan, Edinburgh

This is a late 19th-century Italian Renaissance style church and church hall, designed by Robert Macfarlane Cameron and dated 1891. The church and hall have been converted into residential and office space. The church is constructed from lightly droved red Dumfries ashlar sandstone with polished dressings on the south and east sides, while the hall, facing north and west, is of squared and snecked cream sandstone with red polished dressings. Elements include a base course, cill course, eaves cornice, and panelled two-leaf doors.

The east elevation, facing Whitehouse Loan, features an advanced and buttressed gabled bay, with lower former stair towers flanking to the left and right, set within a re-entrant angle formed with the aisles. A round-arched doorpiece, pilastered and keystoned with a frieze and cornice, provides access. Above the door is a Venetian window enclosed by voussoir blocks, a slit window, and a steep pediment with decorative carving. Smaller single windows are positioned to either side of the centre. The former stair towers have transomed single windows with carved heraldic aprons under the eaves.

The south elevation, facing Greenhill Terrace, includes a stair tower to the outer right, a five-bay former aisle divided above ground floor by pilasters, and a brick link to the church hall to the outer left. A corniced architraved doorway is set within a two-stage, pedimented stair tower, flanked by a single window to the right, and a tripartite window at the first floor. The ground floor has five bays with bipartite windows, each featuring capitalled mullions and lintel angle modillions. Tall round-arched windows are above, with a panelled parapet above a deep eaves cornice. The church hall’s gable has three round-arched windows at ground level and a slit window in the gable head.

The north elevation mirrors the south, with a stair tower to the outer left and a five-bay main block featuring bipartites at ground level and tall round-arched windows above. The hall is not visible from this elevation.

Replacement timber casement windows are present throughout. The roof is covered in grey slate with terracotta ridge tiles, carved consoles to the corniced wallhead stacks, and some original rainwater goods including hoppers. The interiors were not inspected in 1991. Low, coped rubble boundary walls run along Whitehouse Loan, punctuated by two corniced red ashlar gatepiers.