Perspective of proposed design for St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh.
DP 354142
Description Perspective of proposed design for St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh.
Date 1870
Collection Competition perspective of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, Peddie & Kinnear.
Catalogue Number DP 354142
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of DC 67857
Scope and Content St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh Peddie and Kinnear Art Funded 1992 Dimensions 60 x 107 cm Vendor Daniel Shackleton Competition entry for the design of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh. Although unsuccessful, the design is an very important example of the Scottish Baronial revival applied to an ecclesiastical building. The written submission which accompanied the drawings and plans describes it thus: 'The general style of the Architecture is Gothic of the best period with as much as possible of the Scottish variety. Scottish Gothic is quite different from English Gothic...It has been sought to make the Cathedral, which.. will be , thoroughly Scottish in character.'
Accession Number 1991/76
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