Newhaven Parish Church, 7 Craighall Road, Edinburgh

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 29/04/1977 Local Authority Edinburgh Planning Authority Edinburgh Burgh Edinburgh NGR NT 25395 76969 Coordinates 325395, 676969 — John Henderson, 1836; accommodation below, halls and original schoolhouse to rear, 1862-3; additional vestry and session house to S by William McLachlan, 1899-1900. Neo-Perpendicular church set on prominent sloping site; 3 by 4-bay rectangular-plan with nave-and- aisles? gable to W; crowning belfry and pinnacles. Polished ashlar front; architraved and chamfered windows; rubble finish to N, S and E; long and short stugged surrounds to side openings. Projecting base course; raised margins; hoodmoulds to pointed arched windows; stepped hoodmould above entry. W (CRAIGHALL ROAD) ELEVATION: 3-bay, symmetrical facade. 2-leaf timber Tudor-arched and panelled door set within polished and chamfered doorpiece. Large traceried window above in 4-centred arched recess; projecting sculpted stops; stone Y-mullion to centre; timber mullions either side. Corbelled, gabled open belfry; sculpted finials; side gablets. Buttresses flanking to left and right of centre; timber traceried windows to aisles set in pointed-arches; hoodmoulds; chamfered cills. N AND S (SIDE) ELEVATIONS: 4-bay. 3-light, timber-traceried windows to each bay set in pointed arches; coped gablets above; sculpted finials (majority missing). Projecting string course to N; variety of single openings to ground floor; droved and chamfered surrounds. S (REAR) ELEVATION: extended chancel (1899); 5-light timber-traceried window set in pointed arch; sculptured fleur-de-lys finial; flanking transomed windows in recessed aisles. HALL, VESTRY AND OLD SCHOOLHOUSE: single storey, 4-bay hall to rear; timber boarded door; chamfered and shouldered surround. Single windows to each bay; st

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.