Interior - view of altar

Description Interior - view of altar

Date 1914

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

Catalogue Number SC 717086

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 22323

Scope and Content Altar, 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 altar, set against the east wall of the chancel, is decorated with an elaborately carved wooden reredos or screen. The central panel shows Christ surrounded by little children with the carved figures of St Paul (left) and St Cuthbert (right) on either side. The chancel walls are lined with traceried panelling, and the tiled floor is probably by Peddie & Kinnear. The reredos is an ornamental screen covering the wall at the back of the altar which is usually situated at the east end of a church. Above, the stained glass window has five lights showing Christ in glory with scenes from his birth to the Transfiguration, and designed by the stained glass artists, Heaton, Butler & Bayne, in 1891-2. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference Box 63

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