Interior - view of altar showing wall memorial to Right Reverend Daniel Fox Sandford

Description Interior - view of altar showing wall memorial to Right Reverend Daniel Fox Sandford

Date 1913

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

Catalogue Number SC 717128

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 22327

Scope and Content Detail of the Chancel, St John's Scottish Episcopal Church, Princes Street, Edinburgh 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. The chancel, in the shape of a three-sided apse, is lined with intricately detailed carved oak panelling by John More Dick Peddie & Forbes Smith which was inspired by King's College Chapel in Aberdeen. The bishop's seat is crowned by a Gothic-style pinnacled spire, and the marble wall-monument above the door to the vestry is in memory of the Right Reverend Daniel Fox Sandford, Bishop of Tasmania. The three steps (right) lead to the altar. The Right Reverend Daniel Fox Sandford (1831-1906) served as curate to Dean Ramsay at St John's for ten years before being appointed Bishop of Tasmania (Australia) in 1883. He was the grandson of Bishop Daniel Sandford who, as a young curate, came to Edinburgh in 1792 to found the small Episcopalian congregation that eventually grew to become the congregation of St John's. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference Box 66

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