St George's Chapel, York Place

Category

Library Item

Item no

18656

Title

St George's Chapel, York Place, Edinburgh

Description

St George's Chapel is an octagonal building with castlements and battlements. There are houses on either side. The buildings are marked off from the pavement with iron railings. Ladies and gentlemen walk along the street.

Artist / maker

Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer

Engraver

Watkins, W

Date

1829

Size

9.8 x 15.1 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.

St George's Episcopal Chapel on York Place in Edinburgh was designed by James Adam between 1792-4. It was a copy of George Dance's St Bartholomew-the-Less church in London. The building is now used as a warehouse. The church congregation united with St Paul's Episcopal Church in 1932, also on York Place.

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