Mansfield Place Church
OS grid referenceNT252735
LocationEdinburgh
CountryScotland
History
Founded1885
Architecture
StyleRomanesque Revival architecture

Mansfield Place Church is a church in Edinburgh. The Scottish neo-Romanseque building was designed by Sir Robert Rowand Anderson and completed in 1885. Now called the Mansfield Traquair Centre, it is located on Mansfield Place at the foot of Broughton Street.

Murals

Catholic Apostolic Church murals, Edinburgh (east end)
Catholic Apostolic Church murals, Edinburgh (west end)

The church's interior was decorated (1893–1901) by Phoebe Anna Traquair. This work, her best-known, has been called "Edinburgh’s Sistine Chapel",[1]

References

  1. "Phoebe Anna Traquair". National Library of Scotland. 2006. Retrieved 12 January 2015.


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