St Columba's Free Church, Upper Bow, Edinburgh

Category

Library Item

Item no

12533

Title

St Columba's Free Church, Upper Bow, Edinburgh

Artist / maker

MacLean, Kevin

Date

2007

Type

Digital image

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

St Columba's is a congregation of the Scottish Episcopal Church . The church is located close to Edinburgh Castle, on the south slope of Castle Hill, and is protected as a category B listed building.

The church was constructed in 1846–1847 in an Early English Gothic style, to designs by architect John Henderson. Stone for the building was brought from the palace of Mary of Guise, 16th-century queen regent of Scotland, on the Royal Mile. Its layout was inspired by the reforms of Anglican worship arising from the Oxford Movement.

St Columba's is part of a local ecumenical partnership (LEP) with Greyfriars Tolbooth & Highland Kirk (Church of Scotland) and Augustine United Church (United Reformed Church). It is also part of Edinburgh Churches Together and Action of Churches Together in Scotland.

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