Architecture Notes
Event ID 671015
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/671015
NT27SW 240 24120 73484
See also:
NT27SW 29 NT 24113 73539 Easter Coates House (St Mary's Music School)
NT27SW 2084.00 NT 24096 73579 Walpole Hall
NT27SW 2084.01 NT 24095 73562 Song School
Architect: Sir G Gilbert Scott 1874 - won in competition
John Olrid Scott - completed original design 1890
Sir Robert Lorimer 1911-12 - Bishop Dowden Memorial
John Lessels - design submitted in competition 1873
William Burgess - design submitted in competition 1873
G E Street - design submitted in competition 1873
Peddie & Kinnear - design submitted in competition 1873
Dr Alexander Ross - design submitted in competition 1873
Charles Marriot Scott - design for screen & canopies to back of choir stalls 1916
NMRS Print Room
Palmerston Place, St Mary's Cathedral
Seen through the trees
W Schomberg Scott Photograph Collection
Accession no 1997/39
NMRS REFERENCE:
LOR/PRINT ROOM/127
The Dowden Memorial
Envelope containing a collection of sketches and notes re. the memorial to Bishop Dowden executed 1910/11
The exterior of the envelope bears the Insc: "The Court of Lord Lyon of Edinburgh" and is stamped all over with the frank: "Graham Johnston heraldic artist to Lyon Court, Register House Edinburgh"; the envelope also bears a heraldic design sketched in blue crayon.
The envelope contains: - Alternative designs for the memorial including reworkings of the detailing: heraldic devices, angels, the symbols of the evangelists, the bishops staff and mitre.
- the proposed inscription.
- letter/memo to Sir Robert Lorimer from the Very Rev. J.S. Wilson dated 21/12/10 proposing the inscription, and suggestion that Lorimer borrow the bishops staff after the weekend (in order to have it drawn, evidently)
LOR/PRINT ROOM/61
Insc: "....(lost) Cathedral, Edinburgh. Scheme A....Wall Arcading in transept." Elevation. Detail of arcading. Fragment. (east wall of transept?) Presentation drawing
Pencil and watercolour on tracing, mounted on card
Size 11 3/4"x12 1/2"
LOR/PRINT ROOM/62
Insc: "St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh. Proposed Wall Arcading in transepts - Elevation of West wall of transepts"
With figure to show scole of arcading
Presentation drawing
Pencil and watercolour on tracing, mounted on card
Size 11 3/4"x16"
Inglis Photograph Collection Acc No.1994/90
1 exterior view: South and West fronts; 1 interior view: Nave looking East.
1 view of Lady Chapel and 1 view of altar and reredos, probably before 1914.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
