Interior - general view looking towards altar in St Cuthbert's Church

Description Interior - general view looking towards altar in St Cuthbert's Church

Date 1895

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

Catalogue Number SC 717185

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 13112/5

Scope and Content Chancel and Nave, St Cuthbert's Parish Church, Lothian Road, Edinburgh, from the north-west St Cuthbert's Parish Church, a large imposing Renaissance-style church with Baroque detailing, was designed by the architect, Hippolyte Jean Blanc, and built in 1892-5 at the west end of Princes Street Gardens on an ancient church site dating from the 12th century. The architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, was commissioned to photograph the interior in 1895. The nave is vast and relatively plain, and is surrounded by a wooden gallery supported on slim columns. A wide arch, with more gallery seating, opens into the south transept (right). The flat ceiling is compartmented, and the apsed chancel (left), lined with wooden panelling, has a central white marble communion table, raised on a plinth and approached by marble steps. The church was named after St Cuthbert, a 7th-century bishop, who, as a young man, was a shepherd in the Lammermuir Hills. He became a monk at Melrose, and travelled extensively throughout the south of Scotland, preaching and spreading Christianity as far north as the Firth of Forth. He later withdrew to a solitary existence on the island of Lindisfarne until his death in 687. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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