Interior - view of West door and baptistry
SC 717129
Description Interior - view of West door and baptistry
Date 1913
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number SC 717129
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of BL 22328
Scope and Content West Door and Bapistry, 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. In the baptistry (left) the marble font, dating from 1857, has an ornate wooden carved pinnacled spire as a cover, similar, if on a reduced scale, to the medieval font cover in Durham Cathedral. The cover was added in 1913 by John More Dick Peddie & Forbes Smith who also set back the gallery above the west door, and installed its carved wooden balustrade. The two marble wall-monuments under the gallery are representative of a series of mid-19th-century memorials in the church designed in Gothic or Neo-Tudor styles. They commemorate Scottish army and infantry officers, members of the congregation, who died in battle, some in the Crimean War (1853-6). Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference Box 66
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