Craigmillar Arts Centre, 58 Newcraighall Road, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 July 1996. Church. 2 related planning applications.

Craigmillar Arts Centre, 58 Newcraighall Road, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
muted-eave-dust
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 July 1996
Type
Church
Address
Craigmillar Arts Centre, 58 Newcraighall Road, Edinburgh, EH15 3HS
OS grid reference
NT 310 716
Coordinates
55.93276, -3.10484
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Craigmillar Arts Centre, located at 58 Newcraighall Road in Edinburgh, is a building designed by John Robertson of Inverness in 1900. It is a Modern Gothic church featuring a rectangular nave and chancel, along with a circular tower, baptistry, and chapel. The structure is made of brick with a cement render that mimics squared and snecked bull-faced masonry, topped with a grey slate roof and terracotta ridging. The windows are roll moulded and pointed arched.

On the north elevation, there is an entrance tower that projects at the northwest angle, featuring an advanced gabled doorpiece with flanking pinnacles and a cruciform finial. The pointed arched doorway has boarded timber doors, and there are windows at the first stage of the tower. The tower is capped with a conical roof that has a scalloped lead cap and a dentilled cornice. A circular baptistry projects to the north of the chancel and has a polygonal roof. The nave is flanked by buttresses.

The west elevation is buttressed and includes an advanced polygonal chapel with a three-light window set in the gable. The east elevation is also buttressed and features a three-light window set in the gable. The south elevation has a regular arrangement of bays.

Inside, the church boasts a decorative open timber roof supported by timber columns that form aisles. The east window is adorned with stained glass, while the other windows predominantly feature clear leaded glass with coloured margins. The moulded cement "masonry" matches the exterior.

The property is complemented by gatepiers topped with ball finials and a low coped boundary wall along the street, which is accompanied by modern railings.

Local climate

Craigmillar Arts Centre, 58 Newcraighall Road, Edinburgh receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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