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Edinburgh, Rutland Street, General
General View
Site Name Edinburgh, Rutland Street, General
Classification General View
Canmore ID 147266
Site Number NT27SW 2386
NGR NT 24647 73589
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/147266
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
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.
