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Latitude: 55.9309 / 55°55'51"N
Longitude: -3.2525 / 3°15'9"W
OS Eastings: 321841
OS Northings: 671573
OS Grid: NT218715
Mapcode National: GBR 88P.NF
Mapcode Global: WH6SS.06G5
Plus Code: 9C7RWPJW+8X
Entry Name: Stenhouse Saughton Church, Gorgie Road, Edinburgh
Listing Name: Gorgie Road, Stenhouse-Saughton Church (Church of Scotland), Halls, Boundary Walls and Railings
Listing Date: 26 October 1989
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 371016
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30211
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, Gorgie Road, Stenhouse Saughton Church
ID on this website: 200371016
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Fountainbridge/Craiglockhart
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Church building
T Aikman Swan, architect, 1935. Gothic with Scots
vernacular detailing.
Cruciform church with polygonal apse to S and tower to NW.
To E lower hall range of 1912.
Snecked cream sandstone with polished ashlar dressings,
margins and quoins.
N elevation: main advanced central
gable with central ogee-headed window feature with moulded
architraves. To right square 3-stage tower with recessed
door to ground. Louvred belfry stage. Tower has shallow
pitch pyramidal copper roof.
4-bay nave with side aisles and clearstorey all round
arched windows with small-pane leaded glazing. Porch to
NW with moulded archivolt around recessed double leaf doors.
Interior: panelled low backed pews. Brick interior walls,
arcaded side aisles.
Timber panelled ceiling, dado panelled apse with elders'
pews.
Halls: 2 detached halls to SW of church. To S roughcast
with snecked ashlar 1930's porch. To W 5-bay rectangle
dated 1912, stugged ashlar with round arched windows; slate
roof with central fleche.
Boundary walls and railings: low coped ashlar wall supports
simple cast-iron railings.
Ecclesiastical building in use as such.
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