Letters and notes relating to the Dorothea Walpole Memorial Font and two wooden sculptures of angels that were relocated to St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Edinburgh following the closure of St. Margaret ...
551 157/2/3/1
Description Letters and notes relating to the Dorothea Walpole Memorial Font and two wooden sculptures of angels that were relocated to St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Edinburgh following the closure of St. Margaret's Church, Corstorphine.
Date 1968 to 23/4/1969
Collection Papers of Mary Syme Boyd, sculptor, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number 551 157/2/3/1
Category All Other
Scope and Content Includes 1 handwritten foolscap page describing the design of the font. The font was designed and sculpted by Mary Syme Boyd and originally located in St. Margaret's Episcopal Church, Belgrave Rd. Corstorphine. It is now loacted in St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral. Palmerstone Place, Edinburgh. There are two wooden sculptures of angels near the font also designed and carved by M.S. Boyd and seemed to have been gifted to St. Margaret's Church at the same time as the font. These can be seen in photographs of the artist's studio and home, 14, Beflord Mews, Edinburgh.
Accession Number 1998/46
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