Mansfield Place Church

Mansfield Place Church
Mansfield Place Church
OS grid reference	NT252735
Location	Edinburgh
Country	Scotland
History
Founded	1885
Architecture
Style	Romanesque 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

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

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[National_Library_of_Scotland-1] "Phoebe Anna Traquair". National Library of Scotland. 2006. Retrieved 12 January 2015.