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Notes in italics from Pevsner Architectural Guides, Edinburgh by John Gifford, Colin McWilliam and David Walker (1991), Yale University Press.

Revived Perp by William Burn, and not only a good termination for the street but a remarkably convincing Gothic exercise for its date, 1815-18. ... The church is of eight clearstoried bays with buttresses and pinnacles. The end bays have elaborately corbelled niches instead of windows. W tower, originally with single belfry windows and an octagonal lantern ... which blew down during construction. The double-windowed belfry improved the tower, and the only uncertainty of design is in the heavy pinnacles and the perfunctory mouldings of the doorway at the base (not shown). ...

Burn's interior was a masterpiece in its time. Tall arcades with clustered shafts, each pier ending with a leaning-out figure of the penitent Magdalen (an odd economy of specification) as a label stop. Thin clearstorey wall-shafts run up into fan-vaults of the same diameter as the central pendant fans; these, like the ribbed aisle vaults, are of course of plaster.

Peddie & Kinnear's chancel (1879-82), with its slightly steeper stone arch, is more serious and more intricate in detail; the vault has an elaborate pattern of lierne ribs.
Last picture: looking west.