Plan of site for manse for South Leith Parish Church

Category

Library Item

Item no

37712

Title

Page from Leith Miscellany, volume VII, Plan of proposed site for manse for South Leith Parish Church

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1839

Type

Architectural plan; Reproduction

After many years of argument and procrastination, Edinburgh presbytery put pressure on the heritors of South Leith to provide a manse for the minister of the first charge. The heritors were unable to find a suitable house, so in 1839 the presbytery chose a site at Jock's Lodge - part of the South Leith glebe, and had plans drawn by Thomas Hamilton for a suitable manse. The site, however, on the southern boundary of the parish, was quite unsuitable to serve the town of Leith, so the project was abandoned. The house finally purchased six years later, in Hermitage Place, is now the Kingsway Hotel.

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