Craiglockhart Parish Church, Craiglockhart Avenue, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Church. 2 related planning applications.

Craiglockhart Parish Church, Craiglockhart Avenue, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
vacant-crypt-auburn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Type
Church
Address
Craiglockhart Parish Church, Craiglockhart Avenue, Edinburgh, EH14 1HX
OS grid reference
NT 224 705
Coordinates
55.92158, -3.2427
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Craiglockhart Parish Church, built in 1889 by George Henderson with the tower completed to a revised design in 1908, is a Scots Gothic church. It features an aisleless layout and has a porch-tower with the top stage set back. The church is supported by corbelled diagonal buttresses and has a short stone spire. The structure is constructed from rubble with red ashlar dressings.

Local climate

Craiglockhart Parish Church, Craiglockhart Avenue, 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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