Publication Account

Date 1998

Event ID 1019156

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

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St Mary’s Episcopal Church stands inside the gates. Built about 1835, as the Bueclcuch family's private chapel, to a design of William Burn and David Bryce, the church houses a unique hydraulic organ and bell-ringing mechanism. The magnificent interior, with Minton tile floors and superb stained glass windows, is a reminder of a wealth and status windows, is a reminder of the wealth and status of the Buccleuch family in the nineteenth century. The chapel was transferred to the congregation in 1958.

Information from ‘Historic Dalkeith: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1998).