St Colm's Education Centre And College (Annie Small Centre), 18 Inverleith Terrace, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. Church.

St Colm's Education Centre And College (Annie Small Centre), 18 Inverleith Terrace, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
hallowed-bracket-laurel
Grade
B
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
OS grid reference
NT 249 751
Coordinates
55.96322, -3.20447
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Colm's Education Centre and College, also known as the Annie Small Centre, is a building designed by Ramsay Traquair between 1910 and 1911. It features a mix of late Scots round-arched Gothic and Romanesque styles. The structure is a broad five-bay rectangle oriented north-south, with halls situated beneath it on a sloping site. The northern front has a transverse saddleback tower that spans the full width of the church, flanked by apsidal stair turrets at the gables. There is a projecting central porch with bold triple lancets above it. To the southeast, there is a two-storey wing that contains study and service rooms, featuring a forestair, an apsidal bay, and a pencil-type chimney.

The building is constructed of finely built rubble and showcases high-quality details inspired by Lorimer, including a sculpture of a galleon at the porch, and the Lion of St Mark and the Eagle of St John at the tower. The stair turrets have flushwork eaves galleries, and there are crosses at the gables of the saddleback. An elaborate ironwork grille by Thomas Hadden is located at the porch. The spacious terraced gardens slope down to the Water of Leith on both sides.

Inside, there is a good vestibule in the tower with a glazed oak screen leading to the church. The interior features segmental arches leading to semi-domed cantilever stairs at the ends. The body of the church is aisleless and has a simple barrel ceiling, with a gallery at the north end and twin lecterns flanking a richly detailed organ front designed by Sir Frank Mears in 1925.

Local climate

St Colm's Education Centre And College (Annie Small Centre), 18 Inverleith Terrace, 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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