Interior of the Magdalene Chapel, Cowgate, Edinburgh

Category

Library Item

Item no

2986

Title

Interior of the Magdalene Chapel, Cowgate, Edinburgh

Description

The interior of the Magdalene Chapel in the Cowgate. Lamps hang from the ceiling. There is moulded plasterwork on the walls. A cast iron radiator sits in front of the pews.

Artist / maker

Chrystal, Francis M.

Date

1910

Size

20.9 x 15.9 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

The Magdalen Chapel is situated on the Cowgate in Edinburgh. It was built in 1544 with a bequest made by Michael MacQueen. After the death of MacQueen's wife the chapel passed to the Incorporation of Hammermen, a guild of metalworkers, who decorated the space with their work. It has the only surviving pre-Reformation stained glass in Scotland left 'in situ'. It is now the headquarters of the Scottish Reformation Society.

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Places > Edinburgh areas > Old Town

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