Church Overview

A cruciform, early Gothic-style church built in cream sandstone 1878-79, by the eminent local architectural firm of Hardy & Wight, for the Church of Scotland. When it opened, as Mayfield Established Church in early July 1879, it could accommodate 900 worshippers.

The church hall was added in 1899 and further major alterations were carried out in the chancel in 1957 by conservation architect Ian G Lindsay, who attempted to lighten the dark Victorian Gothic interior. In 2004, a new chapel that was created under the gallery and a new stone cross was erected on the roof in 2008.

Pipe organ was built as a two-manual in 1894 by Brindley & Foster and enlarged to three-manual in the 1920s by Ingram & Co. The building also contains some notable stained glass, ranging in dates from the 1920s to 2004. These including some wonderful windows by noted artists Margaret Chilton and Marjorie Kemp. 

When the Church of Scotland united with the United Free Church of Scotland in 1929, the building changed its name to Mayfield South, to distinguish itself from the nearby former UF church which was renamed Mayfield North. In 1966, the congregation of Mayfield united with Craigmillar Park Church, taking the name of the closing building which was then sold to St Margaret’s School for Girls and has recently been converted into a mosque.

Craigmillar Park eventually formed a union with the congregations of Mayfield Salisbury and Priestfield Churches, calling the new partnership the Newington Trinity Church. The Craigmillar Park building was sold in September 2024 to the Orthodox Community of St Andrew’s in Edinburgh who have refurbished the building for use as an Orthodox Christian primary school.

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