Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, Penicuik
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Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, Penicuik
Image: © Morley Sewell Taken: 11 Aug 2008
The old church was built as a chapel school in 1882 to serve the new parish established in that year. The curved roof of the new extension built in 1982 is of an unusual and striking parabolic-hyperbolic design.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.828497
Longitude
-3.22324