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Church Spire & Clock Tower

            Broughton St Mary’s - Shot from Calton Hill, Edinburgh

Designed by architect Thomas Brown (then Superintendent of City Works for Edinburgh), the site for the Church was finalised on 11 September 1822 at the northern extent of Edinburgh's New Town development. Although the Church was opened for public worship on 12 December 1824, the striking and unusual colonnaded tower was not finished until the following year and the clock was not installed for another year after that. Other notable features include the stained glass windows installed in 1864, the unusual heavily embossed wallpaper added in 1897 to resemble wooden panelling around the gallery and the organ, built by Thomas Lewis of London, and installed in 1882.

Originally the structure was known simply as Bellevue Church (not to be confused with the smaller Bellevue Chapel, directly north of Bellevue Crescent), then named St Mary's Parish Church. It finally became Broughton St Mary's in 1992 as a result of the union with Broughton McDonald Church.
The pulpit, based on the Athenian Choragic Monument of Lysicrates, is one of the few surviving pulpits of the 1820s and reputedly the highest in Scotland.

Taken in: UK / Scotland / York Place (show map)

Taken on: May 12, 2024

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Camera: Sony DSC-RX10M4, f/4.0, 1/800 sec, 203.2mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Sony DSC-RX10M4
Lens:	8.8-220.0 mm f/2.4-4.0
Aperture:	f/4.0
Exposure Time:	0.001 sec (1/800)
Focal Length:	203.2mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Auto, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
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