Edinburgh, Lothian Road, St John's Episcopal Church
Church (19th Century), War Memorial (20th Century)
Site Name Edinburgh, Lothian Road, St John's Episcopal Church
Classification Church (19th Century), War Memorial (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Princes Street; St John's Chapel; War Memorial Screen
Canmore ID 74082
Site Number NT27SW 184
NGR NT 2478 7365
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/74082
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- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
NT27SW 184.00 24756 73659
NT27SW 184.01 24810 73667 Churchyard
Edinburgh, Princes Street, St John's Episcopal Church.
Architect: William Burn 1816
Peddie & Kinnear 1879, 1881 - addition of chancel
Norman chancel, nave and aisle, 1899
Rood Cross, 1912
Hall 1916
REFERENCE
SCOTTISH RECORD OFFICE
Memorial Tablet. St John's Edinburgh.
In memory of Col. John Macdonald Leith C.B.
Inscription and drawings for a mural tablet, from Stewart McGlashan and Son, Sculptors.
1904 GD47/1296
NMRS SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
LOR/EDIN, LOTHIAN ROAD, ST JOHNS CHURCH/1 and 2
Insc: 'City of Edinburgh. Proposed ROAD WIDENING at St. Johns Church, Lothian Road'
Two preliminary sketches in pencil on tracing (one coloured)
Dated: March 1926
Unsigned
From Architecture Catalogue Slip
' "Memorials of the Church of St John the Evangelist Princes Street, Edinburgh" 1911, by the Rev. George F. Terry, F.S.A., F.R. Hist. S., F.R.S.E., F.S.A., Scot. Univ. Coll., Durham, Rector of the Church at that date. This gives a number of external views and a number of internal views of the building and its furnishings. It also refers to the numerous monuments, tablets and memorial windows, as well as notable personages buried there.
Notes from Fettercairn Papers, NLS, Acc. 4796. Box 220. concerning design by J Gillespie Graham, organ arch by Wm Burn etc.'
NMRS REFERENCE
See Historical File (1.12)
NMRS Print Room
St John's Church
2 similar exterior views from the South East
Interior, part of ceiling
W Schomberg Scott Photograph Collection
Acc No 1997/39.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
Project (1997)
The Public Monuments and Sculpture Association (http://www.pmsa.org.uk/) set up a National Recording Project in 1997 with the aim of making a survey of public monuments and sculpture in Britain ranging from medieval monuments to the most contemporary works. Information from the Edinburgh project was added to the RCAHMS database in October 2010 and again in 2012.
The PMSA (Public Monuments and Sculpture Association) Edinburgh Sculpture Project has been supported by Eastern Photocolour, Edinburgh College of Art, the Edinburgh World Heritage Trust, Historic Scotland, the Hope Scott Trust, The Old Edinburgh Club, the Pilgrim Trust, the RCAHMS, and the Scottish Archive Network.
Field Visit (4 September 2001)
A clenched fist on its side, thumb uppermost with a hole in the palm. Placed on a low stone pedestal.
Inspected By : T.S.
Inscriptions : On plaque on west upper surface of pedestal:
MARK OF THE NAIL 1986
Granite
Ronald Rae FRBS
Design period : 1986
Information from Public Monuments and Sculpture Association (PMSA Work Ref : EDIN0867)
Field Visit (4 September 2001)
Abstract head shoulders and arms of a person, shoulders on ground, head looking up to the sky, clasping a bowl [?]
Inspected By : T.S.
Inscriptions : On plaque, set into paving stone next to sculpture:
FAMINE 1985
Granite
Ronald Rae FRBS
Signatures : On SE corner: R
Design period : 1985
Information from Public Monuments and Sculpture Association (PMSA Work Ref : EDIN0868)
Field Visit (9 September 2003)
Bronze high relief portrait head, in profile facing left (W.), within a circular panel. Set into a grey granite tombstone attached to the cemetery wall. Below is another stone which has further inscriptions almost impossible to read.
Inspected By : T.S.
Inscriptions : On stone below portrait roundel (in flat inset letters):
SACRED TO THE BELOVED MEMORY OF / THOMAS GEORGE, SON OF AENEAS MACKAY, AND HELEN MYLNE, / BORN 11TH MARCH 1803, DIED 1ST MAY 1864. / AND OF / MARY KIRKALDY, HIS WIFE, DAUGHTER OF JOHN KIRKALDY, AND AMELIA GARDYNE / BORN 9TH JUNE 1802, DIED 6TH NOVEMBER 1884.
Signatures : Under neck in cursive script [but not legible]
Information from Public Monuments and Sculpture Association (PMSA Work Ref : EDIN1265)
Field Visit (9 September 2003)
Memorial to the Mayne family, composed of their coat of arms within a diamond-shaped panel (centre) and two oval inscription panels (one either side) attached to the N. wall of the 2nd area S. of Princes St of St John's Church Cemetery. The coat of arms is made up of a shield decorated with a chevron [?]. Above the shield is a helmet, facing left, with closed barred visor. To either side of the helmet is foliage [?]; above is [? - too badly worn], and below the shield is a banner.
Inspected By : T.S.
Inscriptions : On oval panel to left (W.) of coat of arms (in applied metal letters):
HERE LIE / MAJOR GENERAL JOHN MAYNE C.B., / DIED 16TH AUGUST 1845, / AGED . 67 . YEARS / MRS MARY ANNE MAYNE, / WIFE OF THE SAID MAJOR GENERAL MAYNE, / DIED 9[T]H JUNE 1841, / AGED 41 YEARS. // AND THEIR CHILDREN / HARRIET ANNE MAYNE, / DIED 12TH OCTOBER 1884, / AGED 61 YEARS / REV ROBERT HANSEN MAYNE / DIED 21ST FEBRUARY 1901, / AGED 73 YEARS.
On oval panel to right (E.) of coat of arms (in applied metal letters):
AND / HANNAH ELIZA MAYNE / DIED 23RD APRIL 1907 / AGED 80 YEARS // ALSO / ELIZABETH MAYNE / DIED 18TH JANUARY 1836 / AGED 61 YEARS / SAMUEL MAYNE / DIED 3RD DECEMBER 1847 / AGED 71 YEARS / AND / ROBERT MAYNE / DIED 20TH DECEMBER 1867 / AGED 85 YEARS.
Signatures : None
Information from Public Monuments and Sculpture Association (PMSA Work Ref : EDIN1267)
Field Visit (9 September 2003)
High relief bronze portrait head in profile, facing right (E.) within eight-sided bronze panel. Set into a large red granite tombstone attached to the cemetery wall. The portrait is in the centre panel of the three panels making up the tomb- stone. All three panels have incised inscriptions which are almost impossible to read.
Inspected By : T.S.
Inscriptions : Below portrait, carved into granite (incised letters):
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF / JOHN ANTHONY MACRAE ESQ WS LLD [inscription illegible] / BORN 1 FEB. 1812. DIED 23 MAY 1868 [inscription illegible]
Signatures : Under neck (in incised letters): JN STEELL Sculpt
Information from Public Monuments and Sculpture Association (PMSA Work Ref : EDIN1266)
Excavation (4 February 2015 - 22 March 2017)
Addyman Archaeology was contracted by LDN Architects on behalf of the Church of St. John the Evangelist, of the Scottish Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Edinburgh, to undertake archaeological mitigation associated with the construction of a new church hall and renovations within the crypt. Historic building recording and archaeological monitoring during downtakings and ground-breaking works were undertaken, as well as the excavation of a c. 3.8m x 3m trench to facilitate the installation of a new lift-shaft in the crypt area. The historic building recorded included the recording of elements impacted by the redesign of the existing hall structure: the east and west gable ends of the existing hall, the south wall of the dormitory and the monuments associated with it, and the east terrace wall and its associated monuments. Also recorded were monuments in the crypt area affected by the redesign; two of these, the Paterson and MacDowell monuments, were moved and re-sited. The lift-shaft excavations, situated within the John Paterson lair, encountered the substantial foundations of the Paterson box tomb memorial and six inhumations of the Paterson family, four of which had been interred in wood coffins and two in zinc-alloy metal coffins. Once excavated and recorded these individuals with their associated coffin furniture were re-interred in the same trench, outwith the footprint of the lift workings. Also encountered in the Paterson lair trench were the remains of an original stone-lined drain, constructional strata relating to the initial building of the church, and pre-church garden soil deposits associated with the area's use as a market garden before 1816.
Information from Philip Karsgaard (Addyman Archaeology January 2017. OASIS ID: addymana1-284155
OASIS ID: addymana1-284155
