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Architecture Notes
Event ID 788230
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/788230
ARCHITECT: Archibald Elliot 1819
Built 1830-40 with alterations by John Tait, architect
NMRS REFERENCE:
Plans:
Dick Peddie & MacKay, Edinburgh drawings (approx 50)
John Tait 1832-6
Transferred to NMRS 1997
Historical file
Edinburgh, Rutland Street, St. Thomas's Episcopal Chapel. Later at Glasgow Road.
Filed under: 'St Thomas's'.
Four pages of typed notes detailing the history of the chapel, including an incident on 9th December 1843, when a hoax advertisement announcing the opening of the chapel was placed. The real opening was announced on 16th December of that year.
Later that year; 'The author of this mischievous hoax has been detected, and on agreeing to pay the expenses incurred, and confessing the impropriety of his conduct, Mr Drummond has consented to accept an apology, and here the matter for the present has ended'.
The chapel changed site in 1940, to the South side of Glasgow Road, and was consecrated by the Right Reverend Bishop Logie Danson, D.D.
