Portsburgh Chapel Porch
by Yvonne Johnstone
Title
Portsburgh Chapel Porch
Artist
Yvonne Johnstone
Medium
Photograph - Digitally Enhanced Photograph
Description
View of the old Portsburgh Chapel porch on the East elevation to the Vennel.
It is a flat roofed single storey porch. The tripartite ashlar Doric arcade is flanked by single windowed bays.
The Portsburgh Chapel was built as a Succession Church for an Associate (Burgher) congregation which had succeeded from the Nicholson Street Antiburgher congregation in 1789.
A new Succession Church was built on this site in 1792 and rebuilt in 1828 by the architect Archibald Scott, in plain classical design.
The Succession congregation moved out in 1859, to be replaced by a United Presbyterian congregation, who used the building as a mission church.
The B-Listed Ecclesiastical building is no longer in use as such.
It is listed as a simple Georgian preaching box of a type once common, it is now the only surviving example in Edinburgh city centre.
The building became the Salvation Army Rescue Home in 1881. The Salvation Army Women's Hostel was built in 1910 as an extension. Both later formed part of an annexe to the Edinburgh College of Art.
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June 30th, 2021
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