Lady Yester's Church

Category

Library Item

Item no

18730

Title

Lady Yester's Church

Description

Lady Yester's Church stands on Infirmary Street, Edinburgh. The church has large stained glass windows. A man on crutches holds his hat out towards a larger gentleman. A woman and her children walk along the pavement. A man travels along the road on a horse and cart.

Artist / maker

Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer

Engraver

Radclyffe, W

Date

1829

Size

9.7 x 14.4 cm

Type

Engraving

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

This image comes from 'Modern Athens', a book of engravings based on drawings by Thomas Shepherd published in 1829. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Edinburgh was growing rapidly. The popular neoclassical architectural style of the time was inspired by the ancient Greeks and Romans, and Edinburgh was nicknamed 'Athens of the North'. Shepherd's engravings celebrate the beauty of Edinburgh and show many notable buildings and streets both within the city, and further afield.

Lady Yester's Church was built on Infirmary Street in 1805. It replaced a building which was built in 1647 on High School Yards and was funded by Lady Margaret Kerr who was the wife of James Hay of Yester, 7th Lord Hay. The building is now used by the Estates Department of Edinburgh University.

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