Lady Glenorchy's Free Church, Greenside Place, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. Church.
Lady Glenorchy's Free Church, Greenside Place, Edinburgh
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- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1974
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Lady Glenorchy's Free Church, located on Greenside Place in Edinburgh, was designed by John Henderson and built between 1845 and 1846. The church features a symmetrical neo-Perpendicular Gothic facade with a crenellated design, situated on a sloping site that is now part of the front elevation of the Omni Building, constructed between 2000 and 2002.
The facade has three bays, with a slightly advanced four-stage tower at the center, flanked by two-storey bays. It is constructed of broached ashlar stone. A string course divides the stages of the tower and extends to the outer bays above the first floor. The tower is supported by paired three-stage set-back buttresses on the front elevation and a single three-stage set-back buttress on the return side. The first stage of the tower features an advanced section with a miniature crenellated parapet, while the second and third stages have a canted oriel with a crenellated parapet.
The openings in the facade are predominantly Tudor-arched with archivolts, while the oriel and the fourth stage of the tower have flat-arched openings. The outer bays contain openings set within two-storey architraved flat over-arches. The ground floor features modern plate glass doors and surrounding screens, with paired colonettes and a hoodmould above the central bay's opening, and modern steps leading to the left bay. The oriel has windows with cusped lancet lights, including a four-light window at the front and single lights on the canted sides, along with a central transom. The fourth stage of the tower includes a hoodmoulded window with three cusped lancet lights, and the first floor of the flanking bays has windows with four lancet lights and a central transom. A clock dial is positioned at the center merlon of the tower parapet.
The church features multi-pane leaded glazing made of square quarry glass.
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