St Johns Colinton Mains Church

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 14/10/2013 Local Authority Edinburgh Planning Authority Edinburgh Burgh Edinburgh NGR NT 23331 69118 Coordinates 323331, 669118 — Ian G Lindsay and Partners, 1952-4; church hall circa 1965 and later additions. Unusual post-war vernacular, double height, 5-bay nave, L-plan church with dominant squat 3-storey, square bell tower adjoining W gable; on corner site. Rendered brick cavity walls; smooth rendered margins. Nave with tall, narrow window openings and glazed oculus to outer bays; glazed oculus to E gable. Tower with 4 windows at ground floor to W elevation and 2-leaf panelled timber door set in round-arched opening to N elevation with inscription panel to right; single windows at 1st floor; single louvred openings at 2nd floor; broached roof surmounted by octagonal, louvred lantern with bellcast roof, topped by weathervane. Roughly T plan, single and 2 storey church hall and session room adjoined to N. 3-pane fixed windows and 8-pane sash and case windows in timber frames to tower, multi-pane with top hopper in timber frames to nave. Pitched roof, grey slates. Precast concrete, straight skews. INTERIOR: (seen 2012). Parquet flooring to nave, Caithness paving to sanctuary; raked gallery with timber pews to W and choir gallery with organ to N jamb of chancel, both with panelled balustrade, that to N canted; octagonal timber pulpit with inscribed sounding board above to S wall; barrel-vaulted ceiling of acoustic panels, suspended from steel roof trusses. BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS: low bull-faced stone walls with triangular cope and square-plan gatepiers to W. Iron railings and gates with St Margaret's cross detail. — Place of worship in use as such. Colinton Mains Parish Church is a rare and unusual example of a post-war church building that has

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.