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St Paul's & St George's Church Edinburgh

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Redevelopment of St Paul's & St George's Church



ST PAUL’S AND ST GEORGE’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH - lee boyd: PR 2005

The Church of St Paul’s and St George’s has an expanding and vibrant congregation that is currently struggling to function effectively in the impressive Gothic Revival building on York Place. The purpose of this project is to address this issue and make the building fit for its purpose and to sustain its use as a place of worship and congregation for years to come. The new works will act as a symbol of the Church’s intention to look forward and give an outward expression of their faith.

The project can be separated into three main areas of work, each dealing with a different set of Client requirements:

St Paul’s and St George’s Church need to increase their capacity from 400 to 700 and therefore the principle concern of the project is to construct three new balconies in the main Church space. These will be constructed to minimise the inevitable impact on the existing volume and to allow as much space and light around the expressive structure as possible. The stepped rake of the seating is expressed on the underside and will be clad in oak.

The Church have many internal groups and organisations that require flexible accommodation. The existing single storey hall to the North of the church is not flexible and is difficult to access. The proposal is to demolish this hall and, using the deep solum, construct a new three storey extension which will provide multi purpose space for meetings and a dining and kitchen area at the same floor level as the Church. This will be accessed through a new opening in the North wall. The extension will be clad in a combination of ‘bronzed’ copper cladding and render. The extension will have its own dedicated entrance accessed from the front of the Church.

St Paul’s and St George’s Church sits adjacent to one of Edinburgh’s busiest roundabouts and is therefore often passed without a glance. The Church want the building to better represent their open, inclusive approach and therefore the third part of the project is a glass bronze entrance pavilion in front of the West gable and main entrance. This pavilion will be very transparent and refined in detail to limit the impact on the existing fabric. Nonetheless the intervention of the form expressed in a bold contemporary manner will give a distinct point of reference and welcome for visitors and an expression of the Church’s progressive attitudes.

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