Art & Architecture

The church was built in 1859 and opened on 31st July 1860. It cost £4,000 and was intended to be a temporary church for the Irish poor of the Grassmarket who had flocked to Scotland to escape from famine and to labour on the new waterways, railways and roads which were integral to the industrial revolution.

The Sacred Heart Church is a Grade A listed building.

Click on the links below for more information about the art and architecture of Edinburgh Jesuit Church.

Ambo (or Pulpit)
Analogion (or Lectern)
Altar
Apse
Ascension (sculpture)
Baptistery
Ceiling Roundels (Jesuit Saints)
Cupolas (or Lanterns)
Floor design
Font
Holy Rood (or Crucifix)
Holyrood Madonna (statue)
Jesuit Glass (six stained glass panels)
Jesuit Saints (eight ceiling portraits)
Lady Chapel
Lanterns (or Cupolas)
Lectern (or Analogion)
Organ
Pulpit (or Ambo)
Resurrection Mural
Romero Chapel
Sacred Heart (statue)
Sanctuary
Sediliae (Ministers’ chairs)
Shrine: Our Lady of the Way
Stained glass windows
Stations of the Cross
St John Ogilvie (statue & bas-relief)
St Joseph’s Chapel
St Thérèse of Lisieux (statue)
Tile floor
Transfiguration (bas-relief)
Windows (stained glass)