Essential Edinburgh City Tours
Edinburgh - Living City Education Pack
Visit:
Places of Interest
Shops, Pubs & Hotels
Streets
Community & Education
Churches
People
Architecture
Statues & Public Works of Art
Explore:
Edinburgh Castle
The Royal Mile
Princes Street
The New Town
The Water of Leith
Dean
Stockbridge
Canonmills
Broughton
Inverleith
Newhaven
Leith
image copyright Rachel Windsor
The First Church of Christian Scientists on Inverleith Terrace was designed by Ramsay R Traquair, the son of Phoebe Traquair (painter of the murals at the Mansfield Traquair Centre), and built between 1910-1911. It is said to be based on the church of Old St Giles in Elgin. Once used as a college building in connection with St Colm's College next door, and was the office of Union Advertising.
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