Excerpt from The Tourists' Handy Guide to Scotland ST john's episcopalian church stands near the west end of the Gardens, in the corner between Princes Street and Lothian Road; was erected in 1818, after designs by W. Burn, at a cost of is an edifice of nave and aisles, 113 feet long and 62 feet wide, with western pinnacled tower; has details of style and ornature after the model of St. George's Chapel at Windsor; and acquired a Splendid reredos, after designs by Peddie and Kinnear, in 1871. St Cuthbert's Established ...
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Excerpt from The Tourists' Handy Guide to Scotland ST john's episcopalian church stands near the west end of the Gardens, in the corner between Princes Street and Lothian Road; was erected in 1818, after designs by W. Burn, at a cost of is an edifice of nave and aisles, 113 feet long and 62 feet wide, with western pinnacled tower; has details of style and ornature after the model of St. George's Chapel at Windsor; and acquired a Splendid reredos, after designs by Peddie and Kinnear, in 1871. St Cuthbert's Established Church stands a little south of St. John's; is surrounded by an ancient cemetry, con taining some handsome modern monu ments; succeeded a fine, large, ancient, cruciform church, which again' succeeded a 'culdee cell; was built in 1775, at a cost of irrespective of the steeple, erected afterwards to lessen the extreme plainness of its appearance; and is the mother church, associated with ten other churches, for a parish containing upwards of inhabitants. The caledonian railway station stands in the corner between Lothian Road and Rutland Street, obliquely facing the west end of Princes Street; succeeded a temporary station about one and a half furlongs to the south; is itself a temporary structure, erected in 1869, at a cost of more than is intended to give place to a magnificent permanent strue ture, with an adjoining great hotel; and occupies part of an extensive site, which was purchased and cleared at enormous cost. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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