St James The Less Episcopal Church, Inverleith Row, Goldenacre, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 October 1965. Church.

St James The Less Episcopal Church, Inverleith Row, Goldenacre, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
little-minaret-brook
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
27 October 1965
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NT 246 759
Coordinates
55.97052, -3.20894
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St James The Less Episcopal Church, located on Inverleith Row in Goldenacre, Edinburgh, was designed by Sir R Rowand Anderson in 1888. The church features a second pointed style and is constructed of red rubble. It includes a nave with a south aisle and a chancel, along with an unfinished southeast tower. The chancel is notable for its important mural scheme created by William Hole. The chancel fittings were designed by J J Burnet in 1894, while the screen was crafted by Burnet Son and Dick in 1921, with sculpture work by Gilbert Bayes.

Local climate

St James The Less Episcopal Church, Inverleith Row, Goldenacre, 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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