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Gospel Hall, 140 Morningside Road, Morningside, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Morningside, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.93 / 55°55'48"N

Longitude: -3.21 / 3°12'36"W

OS Eastings: 324493

OS Northings: 671433

OS Grid: NT244714

Mapcode National: GBR 8KP.8R

Mapcode Global: WH6SS.N6MT

Plus Code: 9C7RWQJQ+2X

Entry Name: Gospel Hall, 140 Morningside Road, Morningside, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 140 Morningside Road, Old Morningside School, Gospel Hall

Listing Date: 14 December 1970

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 364874

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27612

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, Morningside, 140 Morningside Road, Gospel Hall

ID on this website: 200364874

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Morningside

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Dated 1823. Small single storey 3-bay rectangular-plan schoolhouse with later side wings (1980). Cream sandstone, droved ashlar front and sides, rubble rear with droved quoins. Base course; eaves band. E (FRONT) ELEVATION: advanced bay at centre with single window, breaking eaves in square ashlar panel bearing clock and linked to roof with half-piend roof. Outer bays with entrance doors under deep cornices with stylised brackets, modern doors, rectangular fanlights (door to left with fanlight of 4 oval panes, to right 4 rectangular panes). Single storey flat-roofed modern side wings to right and left.

N AND S ELEVATIONS: single windows, some blocked and obscured by extensions.

Timber sash and case windows with plate glass glazing; slate piend roof, lead flashings; small louvred conical iron chimney to rear, rooflight to N.

INTERIOR: single room with plain plastered cove ceiling.

Stepped rubble boundary wall with semi-circular coping, plain cast-iron gate and railings.

Statement of Interest

The school was built by public subscription largely on the initiative

of George Ross, an advocate resident int Morningisde. IN 1892, South Morningside School, Comiston Road opened and the old Morningside School closed. Today it is used as a gospel hall.

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