Old Portsburgh Chapel, The Vennel
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Old Portsburgh Chapel, The Vennel
Image: © kim traynor Taken: 14 Apr 2011
The chapel was a Secession Church for a congregation that seceded from the Nicolson Street Antiburgher Congregation in 1789 and built its own chapel on this site in 1792. It was rebuilt in 1828. When the congregation moved out in 1859, it became a United Presbyterian church. The building became the Salvation Army Rescue Home in 1881 and the Salvation Army Women's Hostel seen lower down at the foot of the Vennel was built as an extension in 1910. The chapel is listed as "a simple Georgian preaching box of a type once common, now the only surviving example in Edinburgh city centre". It belongs to the Edinburgh College of Art. There's an old saying that wherever two Scots meet they make a Kirk; a third makes a secession. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-burgher "Persons of good sense I have since observed, seldom fall into argument, except lawyers, university men, and men of all sorts that have been bred at Edinburgh." -- Benjamin Fraklin, Autobiography 1793
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Image Location
Latitude
55.946735
Longitude
-3.197022