Architecture Notes

Event ID 841252

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NX97NE 340.00 97478 76081

NX97NE 341.01 97459 76086 Steeple Tower

NX97NE 341.02 97468 76102 School

NX97NE 341.03 97467 76105 School Tower

St Andrew's Pro-Cathedral was destroyed by fire in 1961. The school has since been demolished, only the two towers remain.

NMRS REFERENCE:

1811-13 Italianate Church

1843-58 Tower and Spire

1871-72 Transepts and Apse

1879 Interior Decoration

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

Scottish Catholic Archives, 16 Drummond Place, Edinburgh.

Pamphlet which gives John McCracken as builder and mason and John Gadden and Robert Carlyle as carpenters for the first church.