Interior view of the ceiling
SC 466203
Description Interior view of the ceiling
Catalogue Number SC 466203
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 38779
Scope and Content St John's Episcopal Church (detail of the ceiling in the nave), Princes Street, Edinburgh St John's Episcopal Church, at the west end of Princes Street Gardens, was completed in 1818 at a cost of £18,000. Designed by William Burn in the Perpendicular style, it has a splendid interior modelled on St George's Chapel, Windsor. The shafts of the nave rise and spread out into delicate fan-vaulting, in plaster, on the ceiling, which makes the interior much more lofty than the exterior implies. Fan-vaults are peculiar to English Perpendicular architecture and consist of halved concave cones with a decorative pattern of arches carved on their surfaces. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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