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St. John's Church, Edinburgh
The Church of St John the Evangelist is a Scottish Episcopal church in the centre of Edinburgh, Scotland. It is sited at the west end of Princes Street, and is protected as a category A listed building.[1]
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Background
It was dedicated as St John's Chapel on Maundy Thursday 1818 with construction having begun in 1816. It was designed by the architect William Burn.[2]
The sanctuary and chancel were built in 1879-82 by John Dick Peddie and Norman Boyd Kinnear. The vestry and Hall in 1915 to 1916 by John Dick Peddie and Forbes Smith.
St John's holds daily services and is unique in that it is the last church in Scotland to hold the weekly service of Matins.
Description
The plaster ceiling vault is derived from that found in the Henry VII Lady Chapel in Westminster Abbey.
The morning chapel was furnished by Walker Todd in 1935.
List of Rectors
- James Geoffrey Gordon 1919 - 1926
- David Brownfield Porter ???? - 1962
- John Armes 1998 - present
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Memorials
- Sir Henry Raeburn
- Margaret Rutherford (mother of Sir Walter Scott)
- Dean Edward Bannerman Ramsay (a tall granite Celtic cross by Robert Rowand Anderson of 1878 with Celtic bronze reliefs by Skidmore)
- Sir William Forbes
- James Donaldson, founder of Donaldson's School for the Deaf
External links
References
- ^ "St John's Church (Episcopal): Listed Building Report". Historic Scotland. http://hsewsf.sedsh.gov.uk/hslive/hsstart?P_HBNUM=27401. Retrieved 29 June 2011.
- ^ Memorials of the church of St. John the evangelist, Princes street, Edinburgh. George Frederick Terry. 1918
Categories:- Churches in Edinburgh
- Religious buildings completed in 1818
- 19th-century Episcopal church buildings
- Category A listed buildings in Scotland
- Listed buildings in Edinburgh
- Listed churches in Scotland
- Episcopal churches in Scotland
- 19th century in Scotland
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