AOC Archaeology Group was commissioned by Cruden to undertake a Level 2 historic building recording survey and a programme of community engagement related to the vacant St John Vianney Roman Catholic Church located at 40 Fernieside Gardens, Edinburgh in advance of its demolition as a condition of planning consent. The church was opened in 1952 and built as a simple rectangular north-west/south-east-orientated brick structure with a main hall and entrance porch set back from the road. A later Presbytery (accommodation block) was constructed in the early 1960s to its south-west side together with a small, detached church hall. This hall was later removed, not before a new larger detached church hall was built in the late 1960s to the south-east. The church served the local congregation until 2013, when the maintenance of the building became too high, and the building was sold. Between 1952-2013, St John Vianney Church celebrated 3,769 baptisms, 732 weddings, and countless First Communions.
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