Interior - general view towards altar in St Cuthbert's Church
SC 717187
Description Interior - general view towards altar in St Cuthbert's Church
Date 1895
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number SC 717187
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of BL 13112/7
Scope and Content Chancel and Nave, St Cuthbert's Parish Church, Lothian Road, Edinburgh 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 body of the church is vast but plain, and surrounded by a wooden gallery supported on slender columns. The flat ceiling is compartmented, and the apsed chancel, lined with wooden panelling, contains three small stained glass windows. The white marble communion table, inlaid with marble of different colours, is set on a plinth and approached by marble steps. Blanc's grandiose white marble communion table is decidedly Anglican in inspiration, and unusual in Scottish ecclesiastical architecture. When the church was dedicated on 16th July 1894, the newspaper, 'The Glasgow Herald', criticised the table, describing it as 'a stone altar'. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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