Our Lady Of Loretto And St Michael Archangel Roman Catholic Church, Newbigging, Musselburgh

Rebuilt 1903, A E Purdie of Canterbury and Archibald

MacPherson. Church and presbytery form 2 sides of a square

containing a rose garden. Curvilinear gothic cruciform

church, eastern frontal gable, lean-to marthex with low

ogee arched doorways on end elevations, and central, semi

octagonal baptistry, with hexagonal centre window; gable

above, integrated with lateral corner buttresses with

diagonal pinnacles, pair of 2-light traceried windows with

canopied niche between and rose window above. Nave has 3

2-light traceried windows before crossing. South transept

or chapel has larger 2-light traceried window facing east,

under gablet.

Presbytery extends from transept roof single storey with

attics, parallel ridge to rear, extending 1 bay further

south. Splayed porch with low ogee arched doorway in

re-entrant angle, 2 single and 1 double light casement

windows on ground floor. 2 square piended dormers. South

gable has 2 windows ground and 1st floor. Slate ridge roofs

and snecked rubble. Nave with open scissor roof on wall

brackets, aisleless for first 3 bays then breaking through

tall arcade into 2 bay aisles forming Lady Chapel on N

and Chapel of Sacred Heart on S. Square sanctuary with

timber wagon roof bracketed out on canted frieze. Stained

glass designed by Nina Davidson.