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. 3 related planning applications.
Lady Glenorchy's Free Church, Greenside Place, Edinburgh
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- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1974
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Lady Glenorchy's Free Church, Greenside Place, Edinburgh, EH1 3AA
- OS grid reference
- NT 260 743
- Coordinates
- 55.9567, -3.18565
- 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.
Local climate
Lady Glenorchy's Free Church, Greenside Place, Edinburgh sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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