Interior - view of the nave and chancel

Description Interior - view of the nave and chancel

Date 1913

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

Catalogue Number SC 717125

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 22325

Scope and Content Nave and Chancel, St John's Scottish Episcopal Church, Princes Street, Edinburgh, looking east St John's Scottish Episcopal Church was designed in 1815-18 in a Perpendicular Gothic style by the architect, William Burn. In 1879-82 the chancel was extended by the architectural firm of Peddie & Kinnear, and refurbished in 1913 by John More Dick Peddie & Forbes Smith. The architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, was commissioned to photograph the interior in 1913. Burn's interior has tall nave arcades with slim, clustered shafts with penitent figures extending from the pier-heads. Thin clerestory wall-shafts run up into magnificent gilded and painted plaster fan vaults and pendants on the ceiling. Peddie & Kinnear's chancel, behind the handsome carved rood screen and cross by John More Dick Peddie & Forbes Smith, is more intricate in detail. The church, built for a congregation who had outgrown their original premises in Charlotte Chapel, Rose Street, is unusual in the fact that it was constructed on the south side of Princes Street on what had been a market garden. In 1816 proprietors of houses on the north side of the street obtained a private Act of Parliament prohibiting any further building on the south side of the street, thus preserving their uninterrupted view of Edinburgh Castle. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference Box 66

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