Saint Peter's Episcopal Church, High Street, Musselburgh is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 May 1985. Church. 3 related planning applications.
Saint Peter's Episcopal Church, High Street, Musselburgh
- WRENN ID
- solitary-bracket-fen
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 May 1985
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Saint Peter's Episcopal Church, High Street, Musselburgh, EH21 7AG
- OS grid reference
- NT 348 727
- Coordinates
- 55.94346, -3.04535
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Saint Peter's Episcopal Church, located on High Street in Musselburgh, was built in 1865 by Thornton Shiells and Paterson. This church features an early pointed aisleless nave with five bays and a lower, narrower chancel with two bays, which includes a semi-octagonal apse. There is a two-bay side chapel positioned at right angles to the chancel on the south side. The northwest corner of the church has a tower and spire that form the porch.
The west front showcases a three-light geometrical window, flanked by cusped lancets and a vesica above. The flanks of the nave and southeast chapel are supported by buttresses with single cusped lancets. The chancel is also buttressed, featuring crocketted pinnacles and cusped lights with a single order of shafts, along with overarches above that include voussoirs.
The tower consists of three stages; the lower two are square and buttressed, transitioning to an octagonal belfry stage. The stone spire is adorned with a single row of lucarnes and bands of fish scale and diamond patterns. Inside, there is an octagonal stone font designed to imitate medieval work, which was previously located in St George's Episcopal Chapel on York Place in Edinburgh, created by James Adam in 1793.
Local climate
Saint Peter's Episcopal Church, High Street, Musselburgh 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 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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