St Andrew, Ravelston
St Andrew, Ravelston
St Andrew’s is a Category C listed Roman Catholic church at 77 Belford Road, Ravelston, Edinburgh, in the Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh.
- Location
- Ravelston, City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- County
- City of Edinburgh
- City / town
- Ravelston
- Address
- Belford Road, Ravelston, City of Edinburgh, EH4 3DS
- Postcode
- EH4 3DS
- Built
- 1902 (timber Arts and Crafts church, built as temporary)
- Consecrated
- 1902 (blessed 27 April)
- Denomination
- Catholic Church
- Dedication
- Andrew
- Diocese
- St Andrews and Edinburgh
- Parish
- St Andrew Ravelston
- Grade
- C
- Style
- Arts and Crafts
- Materials
- Timber-framed, half-timbered with red plain clay roof and ridge tiles
- Opening hours
- Sorry, there are no regular opening times for this church.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas
Overview
The Historic Environment Scotland list description records a seven-bay rectangular-plan Arts and Crafts timber-framed church of 1901–02. The Archdiocese bought Edgehill House and its garden so that a west-end mission could be founded; the first Mass was celebrated in the house dining room on St Andrew’s Day, 30 November 1901. The wooden church was built within six months at a cost of £850 and blessed on 27 April 1902. It was intended as a temporary building while funds were raised for stone, but it has remained in permanent use.
The listing notes half-timbering, hanging eaves, plain bargeboards, a red clay roof, a prominent gabled south elevation, clad buttresses and a long belcote to the west. Scotland’s Churches Trust records a west-window stained-glass panel of 1960 by Felix McCulloch and a seventeenth-century German polychromed Madonna and Child. Because this is a Scottish listing, the statutory entry is given in Further Information rather than as a Historic England or Cadw list URL.