View from SW showing WSW and SSE fronts of nave and tower

Description View from SW showing WSW and SSE fronts of nave and tower

Date 1979

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 792040

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content St Mary's Parish Church, Haddington, East Lothian, from south-west This view from the south-west, taken in 1979, shows the west end St Mary's Parish Church, a large cruciform burgh church, probably built in the mid- to late 15th century. It lost its roofs and vaults in 1548 during a siege. The nave, seen here was repaired after the Reformation as the parish church. The choir and transepts remained roofless until 1971-3, when the vaulting was replaced in fibreglass to designs by Ian G Lindsay & Partners, Edinburgh. This restoration was part of a programme of regeneration of the burgh of Haddington initiated in the early 1960s. Haddington is the county town of East Lothian, and was, until the coming of the railways, a social as well as economic and administrative centre. It is the centre of a rich arable farming area, and the quality of its buildings is unusually high. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference CTH87

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