By the respected John Honeyman, 1881-3. Large Early English church with 41m tower to NW. Courses stugged sandstone with smooth dressings, stiff-lead capitals, set-back buttresses, hoodmoulded lancets (larger flanked by nook-shafts), 2-tier moulded base course. Moulded eaves.

Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Built to replace the Iron Church of North Merchiston which stood at the junction of Ardmillan and Angle Park Terraces and was sold and moved to the Royal Edinburgh Hospital in 1884 (where it still stands today). Cross at E end in garden from North Merchiston Church (congregations united when the latter was demolished). The tower was built in two stages, a spire originally being intended. The roof of the original tower is still inside the upper stage.

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By the respected John Honeyman, 1881-3. Large Early English church with 41m tower to NW. Courses stugged sandstone with smooth dressings, stiff-lead capitals, set-back buttresses, hoodmoulded lancets (larger flanked by nook-shafts), 2-tier moulded base course. Moulded eaves.

Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Built to replace the Iron Church of North Merchiston which stood at the junction of Ardmillan and Angle Park Terraces and was sold and moved to the Royal Edinburgh Hospital in 1884 (where it still stands today). Cross at E end in garden from North Merchiston Church (congregations united when the latter was demolished). The tower was built in two stages, a spire originally being intended. The roof of the original tower is still inside the upper stage.

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By the eminent architect David Cousin, 1846. A 2-storey Tudor Gothic lodge. Greek cross plan, largely symmetrical. Steeply pitched gabled roofs to each jamb with fishscale slates. Squared and snecked ashlar with polished ashlar margins. Windows to each floor with hoodmoulds.

The cemetery was originally known as the Dalry Necropolis, and was a property of the Metropolitan Cemetery Association.

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Designed by John A.W. Grant, 1937-40. Sculpture over entrance by Pilkington Jackson. A 2-storey and attic, rectangular-plan inter-war modern library with corner tower; Art Nouveau and Art Deco details. Coursed sandstone ashlar; steel frame with reinforced concrete floors; rendered brick to rear. Cill course; deep cornice between 1st floor and attic; flat roof.

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Designed by John A.W. Grant, 1937-40. Sculpture over entrance by Pilkington Jackson. A 2-storey and attic, rectangular-plan inter-war modern library with corner tower; Art Nouveau and Art Deco details. Coursed sandstone ashlar; steel frame with reinforced concrete floors; rendered brick to rear. Cill course; deep cornice between 1st floor and attic; flat roof.

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