St.Magdalane's Chapel, Cowgate

Category

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Item no

703

Title

St.Magdalane's Chapel, Cowgate

Description

A man, a child and a woman carrying a baby stand near a cart in front of St Magdalane's (or Magdalen) Chapel, Cowgate, Edinburgh, as other people walk past. A woman enters the church through an open door flanked by pillars. Above the arched doorway is a carved stone pediment with a lamp on either side.

Artist / maker

Skene, James

Date

1827

Size

32 x 19 cm.

Type

Watercolour

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

St.Magdalane's Chapel (or The Magdalen Chapel) in the Cowgate, Edinburgh. Built in 1544 by Maichale MacQueen, the chapel was later bequeathed to the Hammermen, a guild of metalworkers, who then decorated the space with their work. It has the only surviving pre-Reformation stained glass in Scotland left "in situ". It is now owned by the Scottish Reformation Society.

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Places > Edinburgh areas > Old Town

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