Holyrood Abbey Church, 83 London Road, Edinburgh

Holyrood Abbey Church, dating to 1899 and designed by R.M. Cameron, with later additions, is a Free Style gothic church situated on a corner site at the junction of London Road and Marionville Road. The church is constructed of squared and snecked grey sandstone with red sandstone dressings, featuring a moulded string course to gallery level and broad, bracketed eaves. The exterior is characterised by long and short quoins and tabbed surrounds to the windows. Bays are separated by buttresses with long and short quoins. The west elevation is dominated by a cross-finialled gable set between two finialled, pyramidally-roofed square-plan towers with crenellated parapets and canon spouts. A two-leaf timber-boarded door, with a leaded fanlight above, is set within a moulded pointed-arched doorpiece, flanked by lancet windows. Above the door is a six-light window in an ogee-arched surround, with an arrow-slit to the gable; the towers incorporate three-light windows at their upper level. The south elevation includes a projecting gabled south transept, featuring bipartite windows on the ground floor, two hoodmoulded two-light windows in pointed-arched surrounds above, and an arrow-slit to the gable. Three bays of the nave have bipartite windows on both the ground and gallery levels. A south stair tower is also visible, along with a later hall adjoining the south-east corner, distinguished by its crenellated parapet. The north elevation mirrors the south, with a projecting gabled north transept, similar window detailing, and a north stair tower. A flat-roofed hall adjoins the north-west corner. The east elevation incorporates a rose window above ground-level additions, with an arrow-slit to the gable. Leaded glass windows feature geometric tracery. The roof is covered in grey slates with decorative red ridge tiles, gabletted skews, and a louvred lantern. The interior features a compartmented ceiling and an arcaded nave with a timber-panelled gallery supported by cast iron columns to the south, west, and north. Timber pews are present, and timber steps lead to a pulpit from which an EF Walcker of Ludwigsburg organ (1901) is housed within a cusped and crocketed timber enclosure. Two stained glass lights to the south are dedicated as a War Memorial designed by John Blyth in 1927. Stairways provide access to the galleries within the towers.