Portobello Congregational Church, 15 Marlborough Street, Edinburgh

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 04/09/1995 Local Authority Edinburgh Planning Authority Edinburgh Burgh Edinburgh NGR NT 30712 73840 Coordinates 330712, 673840 — 1835; remodelled with Romanesque street elevation, circa 1870; enlarged, circa 1885. Rectangular-plan, with semicircular rear elevation, single storey church. Stugged sandstone with polished dressings; rubble blank side elevations and rear (with droved ashlar dressings), brick hall extension, to rear. Base course, mutuled cornice, coped skews. SE (principal) elevation: 4-bay; projecting rectangular-plan porch extending to windows in outer bays; double board door to centre, with wrought-iron ornamental hinges; semicircular plate glass fanlight above; column-moulded, stop-chamfered arrises below entablature; semicircular moulded arch above fanlight, with coped gable end spanning, cross finial to apex; round windows to side of porch, border-glazed, semicircular moulded hoodmould. Windows to each bay. Cornice, simple pediment arrangement above; round louvered opening to centre within round-arched colonnade supported by 4 short columns with stylised scalloped capitals; cross finial to apex. NW (rear) elevation: windows to extremes of elevation, on curve from side elevations; extension to presbytery; hall separate from main body of church, rectangular-plan with porch. Tall round-arched border-glazed metal windows; coloured glass to borders, outer glazing to principal elevation with fine metal lattice within; with border-glazing to rear elevation. Grey slate roof bowed to rear; piended grey slate roof to hall. Interior: 2 aisles, wooden pews with bracketed brass umbrella stands to each; horizontal board reredos; 2 square skylights, recessed into ceiling; cornice to NW end, starting from pilasters to end of side elevations. Rais

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.