Scottish Episcopal Churches, 1860–1910: The Continuing Influence of the Ecclesiological Movement

Abstract

After the first flush of ‘ecclesiologically correct’ churches in the period 1840–60, the churches of the Scottish Episcopal Church continued to be influenced by the precepts of the ecclesiological movement over the following 50 years. This article is a continuation of the author's article ‘The Scottish Episcopal Church and the Ecclesiological Movement 1840–60’, in Architectural Heritage, Vol. VIII, 1997,1 and describes how many of the precepts of the movement, like prominent altars, distinct chancels, orientation of buildings and scholarly gothic, along with screens and side chapels, became mainstream. This was partly due to the dominance of two native-grown architects, Dr Alexander Ross and Sir Robert Rowand Anderson, though many other Scottish architects took up the same ideas and adapted them. As in the earlier period, distinguished English architects were brought in for some commissions. Sir George Gilbert Scott designed the Church's most prestigious buildings in Glasgow and Edinburgh,2 while Bodley, ...