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View from SSW showing SSE and WSW fronts
SC 792367
Description View from SSW showing SSE and WSW fronts
Date 1979
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 792367
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Liberton Parish Church, Edinburgh, from south-east This view from the south-east, taken in 1979, shows the building with its square pinnacled tower. The gablets on the side of the body of the church conceal the fact that the plan is a plain rectangle. The grey sandstone is probably from Craigleith Quarry. This is an early example of a 'Heritors' Gothic' church, a style of building first used in Scotland in 1813 at Collace, Perth & Kinross, in 1813. Churches built in this style generally had square pinnacled towers, prominent buttresses with pinnacles, and simple Perpendicular tracery in the windows, as here. This church was built in 1815, to designs by James Gillespie Graham, to replace an earlier building which had been destroyed by fire. Presumably this predecessor stood on the same site, as many of the graves round it have monuments dating from before 1815. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference CTH104
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