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Mansfield Traquair Centre |
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Location
The Mansfield Traquair Centre is a former Catholic Apostolic
Church building at Mansfield Place, beside the roundabout at the
foot of Broughton Street.
It is now the national headquarters of the Scottish Council for
Voluntary Organisations. |
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Catholic
Apostolic Church
The church was designed by Sir Robert Rowand Anderson and built
between 1873 and 1885. It has stained glass by
Ballantine and is best known for its large murals painted in the
1890s by the Arts and Crafts artist, Phoebe Anna Traquair
(1852-1936).
The Catholic Apostolic Church was established in 1835, set up
under apostolic rule, anticipating the imminent Second Coming of
Christ. The church gradually became extinct during the 20th
century. Its last priest died in 1971. Some groups
associated with the Catholic Apostolic Church still continue to
meet in Scotland and elsewhere in Europe. |
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Mansfield
Traquair Trust
The Mansfield Traquair Trust was established in 1993 to
preserve the Mansfield Traquair church and its murals.
Renovation of the building was completed in 2002 and the
restoration of the murals was completed in 2005.
The Friends of the Mansfield Traquair Centre provide
tours of the building and its murals, once a month on Sunday
afternoons, throughout the year, and more frequently during the
Edinburgh Festival each August. |
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Viewing the
Murals
The
Mansfield Traquair
Trust web site
gives details of
when the murals by Phoebe Anna Traquair on the walls of the Mansfield
Traquair Centre, formerly a Catholic Apostolic Church at Mansfield
Place, Broughton, Edinburgh can be viewed.
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