St. Mary's Cathedral (Edinburgh)

This article deals with the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Church. For the cathedral of the Scottish Episcopal Church in Edinburgh see St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh .

St. Mary's Metropolitan Cathedral Edinburgh

St. Mary's Cathedral (also called St. Mary's Roman Catholic Cathedral ) is the Roman Catholic cathedral of Edinburgh , Scotland . It is located in the East End of Edinburgh on Picardy Place and is the seat of the Archbishop and the Archbishopric of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh .

history

Edinburgh was the seat of a bishopric as early as the early Middle Ages , around the 8th century. With the Reformation in Scotland , the bishop's see became orphaned for several centuries from 1571. The building of Catholic churches was also prohibited until 1778.

St. Mary's Cathedral

However, when the number of Catholics in Scotland slowly increased in the wake of the Industrial Revolution , the Catholic Church in Scotland under Bishop Hay decided in 1801 to build a large new church in Edinburgh's New Town . The former cathedral in St Andrews had long been in ruins, the bishopric was finally moved to the capital, but the new archbishopric was named Saint Andrews and Edinburgh .

James Gillespie Graham , who also designed the Roman Catholic Church of St. Andrews in Glasgow, was hired as the architect . In August 1814, the building was completed according to the plans of Graham in the Scottish Gothic Style , the Scottish variant of the neo-Gothic . In the decades that followed, some smaller extensions followed: in 1841 Bishop Gillis had the altar area extended, and in 1866 Bishop Strain added a side chapel . In 1878 the church was made a bishopric and thus a cathedral. 1896 there was a further expansion of the chancel and 1932 raising the ceiling to its present height.

organ

The organ was built in 2007 by the organ builder Matthew Copley (Kingston-upon-Thames). The instrument has 66 registers on three manuals and a pedal and can be played from two console tables . The actions are electric.

I Great Organ C– Double diapason 16 ′ Bourdon 16 ′ diapason 8th' viola 8th' Flûte Creuse 8th' Stopped diapason 8th' Double quint 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Octave 4 ′ Flûte D'Amour 4 ′ Double tierce 3 1 ⁄ 5  ′ Quint 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Fifteenth 2 ′ Plein-Jeu V Double trumpet 16 ′ Trumpet 8th' Tremulant

II Swell Organ C– Contre viol 16 ′ diapason 8th' Viole de Gambe 8th' Voix Celeste 8th' Bourdon 8th' Principal 4 ′ Flûte envelope 4 ′ Octavine 2 ′ Fittings V. Basson 16 ′ Trumpets 8th' Hautbois 8th' Tremulant

III Solo Organ C– Flûte Harmonique 8th' Cor de Nuit 8th' Unda Maris 8th' Viole Octaviante 4 ′ Flûte Ouverte 4 ′ Nazard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Flageolet 2 ′ Tierce 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ Septième 1 1 ⁄ 7  ′ Rossignol 1' Clarinet 8th' Voix Humaine 8th' Trumpet Harmonique 8th' Carillon Tremulant

Choir Organ C– diapason 8th' Stopped Flute 8th' Principal 4 ′ Cornopean 8th' Choir Pedal C– Pedal Bourdon 16 ′

Pedal Organ C– Contra violone 32 ′ Resultant bass 32 ′ Open bass 16 ′ Violone 16 ′ Sub bass 16 ′ Bourdon 16 ′ Quint 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Octave 8th' violoncello 8th' Bass flute 8th' Night horn 4 ′ Harmonics IV Contre Bombarde 32 ′ Bombard 16 ′ Double trumpet 16 ′ Bombard 8th' Chalumeau 4 ′ Chalumeau Tremulant

Individual evidence

1. ↑ More information about the organ ( Memento of the original dated November 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

Commons : St. Mary's Cathedral  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Cathedral website
• Archdiocese website ( Memento of September 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
• Pictures of the cathedral ( Memento from August 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 55 ° 57 ′ 22 "  N , 3 ° 11 ′ 16"  W.