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Edinburgh, Leith Wynd, Lady Glenorchy's Church
Church (18th Century)
Site Name Edinburgh, Leith Wynd, Lady Glenorchy's Church
Classification Church (18th Century)
Canmore ID 52481
Site Number NT27SE 431
NGR NT 25962 73966
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/52481
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
NT27SE 431 2597 7392
Name: NT 2597 7392. Site of Lady Glenorchy's Church (1772) (NAT)
OS 1:1056 map, 1854.
NT27SE 431 2597 7392
Name: NT 2597 7392. Site of Lady Glenorchy's Church (1772) (NAT)
OS 1:1056 map, 1854.
See also NT27SE 522 26069 74377 Lady Glenorchy's Free Church
The original chapel was built on a piece of ground feued from the Orphans' Hospital by Lady Glenorchy in 1772 and was opened in May 1774.
Lady Glenorchy's Chapel, begun in 1772, stood in the low ground, between the Orphan Hospital (NT27SE 137) and Trinity College Church (NT27SE 37) about 300ft E of the N arch of the North Bridge. It was a plain, lofty stone building, seating 2,000 persons. The chapel was opened for use in May 1774, and was demolished in 1845.
H Arnot 1788; J Grant 1882.
