Larger versions of these images are located at the foot of the page. Basic Site Details Name: | St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral | City or county: | Edinburgh | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | | Status: | A Listed | Grid ref: | | Notes: | Competition assessed by Ewan Christian.
Original contract: £89,770; revised contract £95,016; final figure: £110,000.
HS gives reference to plans held by Mrs Elizabeth Stella Phillips and on premises. Uncertain present location of those held by Mrs Phillips (now deceased) | Building Type ClassificationThe building is classified under the following categories: | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes |  | Cathedral | | |
Street AddressesThe following street addresses are associated with this building: | | Address | Main entrance? | Notes |  | Manor Place | Yes | |  | Palmerston Place | Yes | |
EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes |  | 1872 | 1873 | | Competition |  | 1873 | | Design exhibited | Scott's design and Street's design |  | May 1874 | 1879 | Construction | |  | 1878 | 1879 | | Choir stalls, bishop's throne, pulpit and sedilia |  | 1897 | | | Seating proposals |  | 1898 | | | Furnishing of Lady Chapel |  | 1917 | | Design exhibited | Completion of west towers |  | 1922 | | | Interior alterations for the Chapel of the Resurrection and to rood. |  | 1959 | | | Font and screen in St Margaret of Scotland Screen |
PeopleDesign and ConstructionThe following individuals or organisations have carried out design/construction work. Where architects or practices worked together, matching letters appear beside their names in the Partnership Group column. | | Name | Role | Partnership Group | From | To | Notes |  | Alexander Ross | Architect | | 1872 | | Competition design |  | George Edmund Street | Architect | | 1872 | | Recommended in competition by assessor, Ewan Christian |  | (Sir) George Gilbert Scott | Architect, Architectural practice | A | 1872 | 1878 | Won in competition although G E Street had been recommended |  | Charles George Hood Kinnear | Architect | B | 1872 | | Competition design |  | John Dick Peddie | Architect | B | 1872 | | Competition design |  | Peddie & Kinnear | Architectural practice | B | 1872 | | Competition design |  | John Lessels | Architect | | 1873 | | Competition design |  | William Burges | Architect | | 1873 | | Competition design |  | Edwin Morgan | Architect | A | 1874 | 1878 | As clerk of works for work by George Gilbert Scott (also for subsequent completion) |  | Edwin Morgan | Architect | C | 1878 | 1879 | Contractor to John Oldrid Scott for choir stalls, bishop's throne, pulpit and sedilia - based on his father's sketches (except woodwork). Also probably organ case |  | John Oldrid Scott | Architect | C | 1878 | 1879 | Choir stalls, bishop's throne, pulpit and sedilia - based on his father's sketches (except woodwork). Also probably organ case |  | Edwin Morgan | Architect | D | 1890 | 1891 | Contractor to John Oldrid Scott for Chapter House built to the late G G Scott's 1873 designs |  | John Oldrid Scott | Architect | D | 1890 | 1891 | Chapter House built to the late G G Scott's 1873 designs |  | Arthur George Sydney Mitchell | Architect | E | 1897 | | Seating proposals |  | George Wilson | Architect | E | 1897 | | Seating proposals |  | Sydney Mitchell & Wilson | Architectural practice | E | 1897 | | Seating proposals |  | George Henderson | Architect | F | 1898 | | Furnishing of Lady Chapel (Morning Chapel) |  | Hay & Henderson | Architectural practice | F | 1898 | | Furnishing of Lady Chapel (Morning Chapel) |  | William James Kennedy | Architect | F | 1898 | | Furnishing of Lady Chapel (Morning Chapel) - as apprentice to Hay & Henderson |  | Charles Marriot Oldrid Scott | Architect | G | 1913 | 1917 | Completion of western spire to the late G G Scott's 1873 designs |  | Edwin Morgan | Architect | G | 1913 | c. 1917 | Clerk of works to Charles Marriot Scott for completion of western spire to the late G G Scott's 1873 designs |  | Charles Marriot Oldrid Scott | Architect | H | 1916 | | Unexecuted design for screen and canopies for choir stalls |  | (Sir) Robert Stodart Lorimer | Architect | | 1922 | | Interior alterations for the Chapel of the Resurrection and to rood. |  | Edith Mary Wardlaw Burnet Hughes (née Burnet) | Architect | | 1959 | | Font and screen in St Margaret of Scotland Chapel (G G Scott's font was demolished) |
ClientsThe following individuals or organisations have commissioned work on this building/design: | | Name | Notes |  | Lethbridge, Very Rev Provost | |
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ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes |  | Crook, J Mordaunt | 2013 | William Burges and the High Victorian Dream | | Frances Lincoln (New edition) | p147 |  | Darragh, Alison and Glendinning, Miles | 2002 | St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral Edinburgh: a short history and guide | | RCAHMS Broadsheet No 13 | |  | Gifford, John, McWilliam, Colin and Walker, David M | 1984 | Edinburgh (The Buildings of Scotland) | | Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Ltd | p363-5 |  | Graves, Algernon | 1905 | The Royal Academy of Arts: a complete dictionary of exhibitors and their works… | 1905-6 | London: Graves and Bell | 1873, nos 1119, 1156 (Scott); 1132, 1143 (Street). |  | Harper, Roger H | 1983 | Victorian Architectural Competitions: An Index to British and Irish Architectural Competitions… | | London: Mansell Publishing | |  | Rowan, A | 1997 | Penetrating the Incognito | | Salmon, F (ed.): Gothic and the Gothic Revival (SAHGB, 1997) | |  | Royal Academy exhibitors | | | | | 1917, no 1346 |  | RSA | 1874 | | | | 944 (Peddie & Kinnear design) |  | Savage, Peter | 1980 | Lorimer and the Edinburgh Craft Designers | | Edinburgh: Paul Harris Publishing, 1980 (also paperback ed, London & Edinburgh: Steve Savage, 2005) | p177 (for Lorimer work) |  | www.cathedral.net | | www.cathedral.net | | | |
Periodical ReferencesThe following periodicals contain references to this building: | | Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes |  | Architect | 3 February 1873 | | | |  | Architect | 15 February 1873 | | | |  | Builder | 24 August 1872 | XXX | | p691 |  | Builder | 22 February 1873 | XXXI | | Ewan Christian's competition report published in full |  | Builder | 7 November 1891 | LXI | | Chapter House |  | Builder | 16 April 1898 | LXXIV | | or10 April 1898? Check |  | Building News | 31 January 1873 | | | |  | Building News | 7 February 1873 | | | |  | Building News | 14 February 1873 | | | |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this building: | | Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes |  | Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 27441 | |  | National Monuments Record of Scotland/NMRS, RCAHMS | Drawings Collection | | EDD 231/22 Perspective sketch, Peddie & Kinnear design |  | National Monuments Record of Scotland/NMRS, RCAHMS | Hay and Henderson Collection | | HH1/4a-5 |  | National Monuments Record of Scotland/NMRS, RCAHMS | Sydney Mitchell & Wilson Collection | | SMW 1890/10/1/1-4 Check this |  | RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum | RIBA Drawings Collection | | |  | RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum | RIBA Nomination Papers | | William James Kennedy: L v18 no1380 |
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