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Rh EDINBURGH. 830 KDIXlil. nding building Argv :. or V, st Kirk, is a huge mav "'! in 177ii mi tl. -iiury, I- hai built in 1823, with a si John's 'i church, built I Vithiii tl. Itj of tin: citv " P'lo .nOO. It stands mi the V,". side of Chat!, and has a Grecian portico 112 i> i by a lantern, cupola, mid cross. St. Ami: built in 17S"i. is reckoned one of the hands >m^t dr. i:i }'.: ing to tin. h from all )>arts of the New Town 1 in 1828 at the cost of 21,000, nnd has a massive tower 163 feet high, but is situated in a hollow at the W. cud of Fettes-row. i iry's occupies a commanding position in the of Bellevue-crcseent. it in 1824, and h 1" church was built in 1838, and has ihseimoiitly enlarged by thu addition of a 1 v.-hich was completed in 1851. The Free Church has 31 places of worship, some of them elegant strut tut two only requiring particular notice the High church, situated at the head of the Mound, nnd (' gate, or John Knox's church. The former is one of the most prominent buildings in the city, und includes the Church college. The joint structure is in the Kli/abothan style, with a buttressed and pinnacled t erected after designs by I'layt'iiir, and was completed i:i 1850, at the cost of 30,00"0. Tho college contains a senate hall, library, in which is a bust of Chalmers by Steclo, and a suit of clnss-rooins, the lectures being con- fined to natural science, logic, metaphysics, and th' John Knox's church, situated at Ncthcrbow in gato, immediately K. at Knox's hoti-.'. from which he i:ds, is a remark- ably elegant (Jothic .structure, recently completed, with tidily crockettcd pinnacles and a pediment surmounted by a cross. The 1'nited I'resbyterian edifices, including nod Hall, are comparatively uninviting structures, though somo of them very commodious. Tie 1 h elegance and archil 'irceprincip. Paul's hurch, in York-place ; St. .John's, in Princc's-
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liity, at the N.W. < nd of Dean 1'e romantic village of U. h. This 1 ) X39 after :. John Henderson. The Roman Catholic chapels in }'< t<>n, Cowpatc, and J.othian |) ings. ins a map altar-piece by Vandyck, " iyofthe Church of Scotland h"!,!, a full i 'hurch. Edinburgh is also f i of a presbytery, and the i: ;he synods of the mentioned above. h< educational and bcnc ; as nn al and ail -.tie 1 Iliirh School, original ly d as, ,u I. :i!:iry, nd placed under the 'he canons of lio; tul took the nan 1-Miiiburircntis. In 1T77 iill 0:1 its ipi> d by the Ili(:r;n:iry : but rthwanU, its situation in tin- I >M '1'own it, and tin i in is-j", ot, tl,,. - Hill, which was doomed more convenient f..r the inhabitants city. Tho edifice, which cost 30,000, and was de.- by the lali- Thotn.is Hamilton, ai- : b I*'.".). The main building ia 270 feet in : magnificent hexastyli- : which is united to the wings by two corridors, the ire supported by tw, K also of the h There is nnijil' for conducting the various bran udy. Tho library contains about 7,0d ' the rector and masters, to which all t! The play-ground, a portion of which is ro: US, extell'i;: country. The Ivlinbu. my, which wa blilhed in IN'J!, ami it. r Irum to tie- N.l'. nfthe Kyal Circiu. i handsome bui!.; n by Mr. 1' and ont npwardi of '.'ii.iiiin. it is under tie- .siij- hools called thu classical and mo : The urgh Institution was established in ivvj, Htfl ios a largo house in (J lti->idi < there are upwards of 150 schools ot a |. iMie ch.iructw^l eh cu nd Tr.iining College, Frn 1 ( hui i Normal Training Col'. t which are re- markable either for th or for both. These, together with the ]ii which are half us many in nu per cent, of the whole numb, i New towns, between the ages ot ' > ^1 n b<-ing at. volent and chai-itabl. jirising several rich foundations, as II for Hi. tl'o sons of burgesses. This hospital is situ mit of the south- i Kdinhurgh. in a s] park adjoii 1 the finest specii 1 by Inigo Jones. Tho building, a quadrangle u:h way in the exterior, with a central ] and fountain, was commenced in l'i-'i, and tiuisl. at the cost of 30,000. The annual increased to above 15,000, an Act of Parliament obtained (8 and 7 William IV., cap. '26) n the governors to iv schools withii city i burgesses. iu I' 1 '.: namely, ei^ht juvenile and four infant by ni :,d K'rls. i < icorgo-squ. educates and maintains !'> , Edinburgh, with a prefercm .lohn 100 ii die.) in 1853. It is a ban buil'l . adorned with ( v of Kdinhurxh hospital, |..';ndcd by n by liiirr. ' of 12,250. '!' ne Ionic portico. 1 stigirls,).. orgranddai. ., iiant-L: I Km a i. nindc d by .lames Donald- Hall, piinl. r, who d 1'iTty, amounting to about 200,000, to trustees for tl*
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