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The Pantheon ("Temple of all the gods") is a building in Rome which was originally built as a temple to all the gods of Ancient Rome (erected around 27BC). The building is circular with a portico of three ranks of huge granite Corinthian columns under a pediment opening into the rotunda, under a coffered, concrete dome, with a central opening (oculus), the Great Eye, open to the sky. The interior of the roof was possibly intended to symbolize the arched vault of the heavens.
By respected Edinburgh practice of Sydney Mitchell and Wilson, 1899-1900. A 2-storey Scots Renaissance church and office building. Smooth red sandstone ashlar built, painted at ground level. The bays are divided by pilasters, fluted and Ionic at 1st floor. The recessed door has a decorative fanlight in a key-blocked round-arched surround, above a broken pediment containing decorative cartouche. 4 tall round-arched windows with geometric tracery. A blind oculus occupies the central shaped wallhead gable.
A place of worship still in use. This is a well-detailed late 19th century Renaissance style church with a prominent red sandstone elevation to the centre of the urban street run, and containing a contemporary and intact interior decoration scheme.
The church was originally built for the Evangelical Union to include a church, 2 shops, classroom, and lunch room and ladies room in the basement. There was previously a Baptist Chapel on this site from the earlier 19th. century. Details of pilasters and tracery are taken from those at the Tron Church. The building was acquired by the Adventist church in August 1942.