Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

61 BOSWALL PARKWAY, GRANTON CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHLB45646

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Date Added
16/09/1998
Local Authority
Edinburgh
Planning Authority
Edinburgh
Burgh
Edinburgh
NGR
NT 23470 76571
Coordinates
323470, 676571

Description

Frank F MacDonald, 1937. Congregational church; rectangular plan with canted apse and lower height aisles. Simplified Gothic design with foiled and pointed-arched windows and buttresses. Coursed stugged synthetic ashlar with polished synthetic ashlar dressings. Projecting stone base course; projecting stone sills to windows; stone coping to gables.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: stone steps up to paired Tudor-arched entrances; both with 2-leaf boarded timber doors and strap hinges; moulded cornice with carved quatrefoil panel above adjoining sill of large traceried and hoodmoulded window; flanking gableted buttresses with single foil mouldings; single foil-headed windows flanking with lancets above; narrow light to gable; stone cross of Celtic design at apex.

E AND W ELEVATIONS: 8 bays to either side of nave; all except for southernmost bay with paired Tudor-arched clerestory windows; lean-to roof to aisles below, canted to S with single foil-headed window; 7 buttresses to each aisle with Tudor-arched window in between all except 2 northernmost bays of E elevation; that to N contains Tudor-arched entrance (ramp has been added to S).

N ELEVATION: pentagonal apse to N with buttress at each angle; lancet window to central and flanking sides.

Fixed multi-pane leaded windows (some stained glass panes to traceried S window). Slate roofs; small ventilator with pavilion roof to centre of nave; block skewputts.

INTERIOR: not inspected (1997).

Statement of Special Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such. An unusually late Gothic design. Permission was granted to build adjoining hall to W of church (since demolished). External walls of Coltmuir synthetic stone.

References

Bibliography

PETITION and PLANS for Congregational Union of Scotland to erect church and hall, certified May 1937 in Dean of Guild, Building Control Section, Edinburgh; John Gifford, Colin McWilliam and David Walker EDINBURGH in 'The Buildings of Scotland' series (first published 1984, this edition 1991) p600.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

The legal part of the listing is the address/name of site which is known as the statutory address. Other than the name or address of a listed building, further details are provided for information purposes only. Historic Environment Scotland does not accept any liability for any loss or damage suffered as a consequence of inaccuracies in the information provided. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing. Even if a number or name is missing from a listing address it will still be listed. Listing covers both the exterior and the interior and any object or structure fixed to the building. Listing also applies to buildings or structures not physically attached but which are part of the curtilage (or land) of the listed building as long as they were erected before 1 July 1948.

While Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating listed buildings, the planning authority is responsible for determining what is covered by the listing, including what is listed through curtilage. However, for listed buildings designated or for listings amended from 1 October 2015, legal exclusions to the listing may apply.

If part of a building is not listed, it will say that it is excluded in the statutory address and in the statement of special interest in the listed building record. The statement will use the word 'excluding' and quote the relevant section of the 1997 Act. Some earlier listed building records may use the word 'excluding', but if the Act is not quoted, the record has not been revised to reflect subsequent legislation.

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