View from St Vincent Street of South front of St Stephen's Church, also showing East gable of St Vincent's Episcopal church.

Description View from St Vincent Street of South front of St Stephen's Church, also showing East gable of St Vincent's Episcopal church.

Date c. 1940 to 1949

Collection Papers of George Hay, architect, Edinburgh, Scotland

Catalogue Number B 38678

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 502981

Scope and Content St Vincent Street, Edinburgh, looking from Howe Street towards St Stephen's Church St Vincent Street, a short street leading downhill from the end of Great King Street, is dominated by the massive structure of St Stephen's Church at its northern end. Building started in the street in 1821, with tenements that step down the hill. The tenements on the west side (left), built by Samuel Pringle and John Edgar, have Ionic pilasters on the curved corner block where the road sweeps into the trees of Royal Circus. The end of the street is dominated by St Stephen's Church. St Stephen's Church was designed by Playfair in 1827-8 for a congregation of 1,600. Described as 'of vast scale, Baroque power and Grecian severity', it is square in plan and set diagonally to suit the site. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Accession Number 1991/27

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