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Proposed manse for South Leith Church - sunk storey
Unknown, 1839, Architectural plan, Reproduction
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Proposed manse for South Leith Church - sunk storey
Proposed manse for South Leith Church - sunk storey
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Page from Leith Miscellany, volume VII, Proposed manse for South Leith Church - sunk storey
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Date
1839
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Architectural plan;
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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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