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Denomination: Scottish Episcopal
Address: 36 Quality Street, Davidson’s Mains, Edinburgh, EH4 5BS
Local Authority: Midlothian
Listing: B
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Church Overview
The church is built of local Corstorphine stone in the style masons call ‘random rubble’ – rough cut stone of irregular shape – with the exception of the four pillars and their arches at the crossing, which use ashlars. The interior of the church is the handsome bare stonework.
Three beautiful stained glass windows add to the warmth and colour of the church.
The east window is a memorial in Scottish stained glass from the mid-1920s. It depicts the Birth of Jesus with Mary and Joseph in the stable with the ox and the ass flanked by the Shepherds and the Wise Men. At the base of the window are three roundels depicting:
St Columba and his monks landing on Iona, representing Celtic Christian tradition in Scotland.
Holy Cross Church behind an angel holding the True Cross.
St Mary’s Cathedral, Palmerston Place, behind St Cuthbert holding the head of St Oswald, representing Northumbrian Christian tradition in Scotland.
On the south wall of the nave are two contemporary stained glass windows, also memorials, by the Scottish designer and window maker Patrick Ross-Smith. When the sunlight shines through these windows on bright mornings, people sitting in the nave are often bathed in blues and yellows picked out from the coloured glass.
Services
Sundays: 8.00am, 10.30am and 5.30pm. Wednesdays 10.30am.
Opening Arrangements
Open by arrangement.
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