St Peter's Church, Edinburgh

St Peter's Church
Coordinates: 55°55′50″N 3°12′22″W / 55.9305°N 3.2062°W / 55.9305; -3.2062
Location Morningside, Edinburgh
Country United Kingdom
Denomination Roman Catholic
Website StPetersRCChurchEdinburgh.org.uk
History
Status Parish church
Founder(s) Canon John Fray
Andre Raffalovitch
Dedication Saint Peter
Events Nave extended 1928-9
Architecture
Functional status Active
Heritage designation Category A listed
Designated 14 December 1970[1]
Architect(s) Sir Robert Lorimer
Style Italianate
Administration
Deanery St Giles[2]
Archdiocese St Andrews and Edinburgh
Province St Andrews and Edinburgh

St Peter's Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in the Morningside district of Edinburgh, Scotland. It was built from 1906 to 1907, and the nave was extended from 1928 to 1929. The church was designed by Sir Robert Lorimer. It is situated on the corner of Falcon Avenue and Falcon Gardens, to the east of Morningside Road. It is a category A listed building.[3]

History

Foundation

The church was founded by Canon John Gray and Andre Raffalovitch. In 1901, Gray resigned as librarian at the Foreign Office to become a priest of the Catholic Church. When he was curate at St Patrick's Church, Edinburgh, Gray with Raffalovitch as benefactor planned to build St Peter's Church.[3] Raffalovitch was once part of Oscar Wilde's circle of friends.[1]

Construction

In 1905, the church was designed by Robert Lorimer. Lorimer also designed St Andrew's Garrison Church in Aldershot and Knightswood St Margaret's Parish Church. Construction started in 1906 and the church was opened on 25 April 1907.[3]

In 1927, Robert Lorimer was knighted and the next year in 1928, work began to extend the nave of the church, again under the direction of Lorimer. In 1929, it was completed.[1]

Developments

In 1962, following the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council, much of the church furniture, designed by Lorimer, was removed. The cast-iron altar rails, which has fish motifs, were removed. The altar, made of marble, has almost been completely lost.[1]

Parish

The church has one Sunday Mass at 11:30am. Usually, there are Masses or Liturgy of the Word at 9am from Monday to Friday.[2]

From 2017 the parishes in Edinburgh were organised into clusters to better coordinate their resources. St Peter's is one of four parishes in Cluster 4 along with St Columba's, Sacred Heart and St Mark's.[4]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Edinburgh, Falcon Avenue, St Peter's Roman Catholic Church from British Listed Buildings, retrieved 20 July 2017
  2. 1 2 Parishes from Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh, retrieved 20 July 2017
  3. 1 2 3 Edinburgh, Morningside, 77 Falcon Avenue, St Peter's Roman Catholic Church And Presbytery House from Canmore, retrieved 20 July 2017
  4. ↑ "Parish clusters" (PDF). Archdiocese-edinburgh.com. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
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