Architecture Notes

Event ID 761222

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NT27SE 491 25461 73515

ARCHITECTS: Thomas Hamilton (foundations only built)

James Gillespie Graham, with Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin 1841-44

NMRS REFERENCE:

See 'Historical File' under 'Tollbooth Church'.

Edinburgh, Castlehill, Victoria Hall.

PLANS:

Edinburgh Ordnance Survey Sheet 35.

Date 1852.

Location and plans of:

The Assembly Hall and Tolbooth Church, Castlehill.

St John's Free Church and School, Johnstone Terrace.

St John's church and Parish School, Victoria Street.

Tolbooth Free Church when in Infirmary Street.

Scale: 5'-1 mile.

Photographs: newscuts.

NMRS REFERENCE:

Colin McWilliam Collection - pencil and colour wash sketch - Acc No 1991/53.

Unable to locate at time of upgrade 15.2.2000.

Located at junction of Lawnmarket, Castlehill, and Johnston Terrace. Foundation stone laid by Queen Victoria, 1842. Meeting place of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland to 1929. Tallest spire in Edinburgh, at 240 feet. Formerly held Sunday afternoon services in Gaelic. Converted to The Hub, a new centre for the Edinburgh International Festival, 1999. Architect: Benjamin Tindall.

J B Crossland 1966; AMR Hardie 1995; A Forrest 1999