Archaeology Notes

Event ID 700295

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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Built 1816, architect Archibald Simpson; chancel added by G E Street in 1880, porch by Sir Robert Lorimer in 1911. Interior by Sir Ninian Comper, 1936-43

W A Brogden 1988.

Cathedral, in ecclesiastical useage. Built 1816-17 by architect Archibald Simpson, the chancel being added by G E Street in 1880 and the porch by R S Lorimer in 1991; the chancel extension was begun in 1928. Complete redecoration and refurbishment of the interior, ciborium and chapel was carried out by J N Comper in 1936-43.

Built in Neo-Perpendicular style of Craigleith sandstone, ashlar with no tower. The nave is vaulted with asiles, the chancel has a clerestory and there is little embellishment apart from outside crockets with gothic details at the front corners.

Marble statue of Bishop John Skinner by John Flaxman.

(Additional bibliography and newspaper references cited).

NMRS, MS/712/83.