Pricing Change
New pricing for orders of material from this site will come into place shortly. Charges for supply of digital images, digitisation on demand, prints and licensing will be altered.
Upcoming Maintenance
Please be advised that this website will undergo scheduled maintenance on the following dates:
Thursday, 9 January: 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Thursday, 23 January: 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Thursday, 30 January: 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
During these times, some functionality such as image purchasing may be temporarily unavailable. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
View from South West
A 38715
Description View from South West
Date 9/1984
Catalogue Number A 38715
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 457612
Scope and Content St Andrew's Church (now St Andrew and St George), George Street, Edinburgh St Andrew's Church was built in George Street in 1782-4 following the loss of its intended site in St Andrew Square. This shallow space suited the oval, or strictly elliptical, church of which this seems to be the first important example in Britain. The oval church has a portico of smooth ashlar with four Corinthian columns raised on a couple of steps up from the street. The slender steeple, 51m high, designed by William Sibbald, was built by Alexander Stevens in 1789. The intended site for this church on the east side of St Andrew Square was already occupied by 1774 by Sir Laurence Dundas' splendid mansion. The church was finally built on an 'inferior site', without room for a churchyard, in George Street. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/295761
Attribution: © RCAHMS
You may: copy, display, store and make derivative works [eg documents] solely for licensed personal use at home or solely for licensed educational institution use by staff and students on a secure intranet.
Under these conditions: Display Attribution, No Commercial Use or Sale, No Public Distribution [eg by hand, email, web]
