Interior - view of choir stalls looking through reredos

Description Interior - view of choir stalls looking through reredos

Date 1914

Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England

Catalogue Number SC 717084

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 22322

Scope and Content Chancel, St Paul's Scottish Episcopal Church, York Place, Edinburgh (now St Paul's & St George's Scottish Episcopal Church) St Paul's Scottish Episcopal Church was designed in 1816-18 in a Neo-Perpendicular style by the architect, Archibald Elliott. In 1891-2 the interior was altered and enlarged by the architectural firm of Peddie & Kinnear, and the wooden furnishings, by John More Dick Peddie & Forbes Smith, were installed in 1911-14. The architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, photographed the church in 1914. The chancel is lined with traceried panelling and fronted by an intricately carved rood screen. The choir stalls (right) have elaborate canted canopies, and a carved wood reredos (screen) lies above the altar at the east end (centre). The organ (left) dates from 1774. The octagonal Perpendicular pulpit, with its sounding-board or canopy (left), is also by John More Dick Peddie & Forbes Smith. St Paul's, built in the style of a late medieval English church, was constructed during the second phase of rapid growth and development of Edinburgh's New Town, and was designed to house a congregation who had originally worshipped in the Cowgate Chapel in the Old Town. The organ, designed for the Cowgate Chapel, was rebuilt in St Paul's in 1818. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference Box 63

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