Basic Site Details Name: | St Margaret's Church | Town, district or village: | Corstorphine | City or county: | Edinburgh | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | | Status: | | Grid ref: | | Notes: | St Margaret’s is a small episcopal church to be built on the southern slope of Corstorphine Hill on the outskirts of Edinburgh, a modern residential district of roughcast villas and bungalows, where anything in the nature of the typical town church would be discordant. The buildings are therefore planned more on the lines of a country church where simplicity is the leading feature. These are of brick and roughcast and grouped around a cloistered quadrangle which is to be used as an outdoor classroom and meeting place for scouts, brownies, cubs, etc. The church forms the south side of the quadrangle; the hall is in the north, to the east lie the choir and clergy vestries, and the west side is closed by a corridor connecting church and hall. The church will seat 500 persons and the hall 250. The architects are Messrs Menzies Cockburn and Johnson. Edinburgh. [Builder 26 April 1929 p764] | Building Type ClassificationThe building is classified under the following categories: | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes | | Church | | |
EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes | | 1928 | | Design exhibited | |
PeopleDesign and Construction
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | RSA | 1928 | | | | 549 | | RSA | 1929 | | | | 658 |
Periodical ReferencesThe following periodicals contain references to this building: | | Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes | | Builder | 6 April 1929 | CXXXVI | | pp760 - notes, p764- illustration |
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