St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Linlithgow
By J Walker Todd (of Dick Peddie and Todd), 1927-8. Diminutive Byzantine church set back from line of High Street between buildings, square-plan with semi-circular apse to S, Greek Cross plan to interior with single stage tower over crossing.
Interior: broad piers to corners with pierced arches supporting central dome, arches ringed with tiles in section. Pilastered walls with stugged ashlar to base; plaque to W wall. Steps up to apsidal sanctuary.
Stained glass: tripartite with Christ to centre flanked by St Margaret and St Mildred; nook shafts dividing and flanking.
The church was required to slot into a space measuring just 26 feet in width. The church's unusual Byzantine design was chosen in part because it would alleviate the problem of allowing sufficient light into such a narrow space with taller buildings on either side. The founding stone was laid by Colonel MacLaren of the Craigs on 18 May 1927, and the church was completed almost exactly a year later. Despite the fact that the congregation had always been named St. Peter's, Bishop Walpole dedicated it to St. Mildred, with whom his late wife had shared a name. The name reverted to St. Peter's in 1978.
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Linlithgow
By J Walker Todd (of Dick Peddie and Todd), 1927-8. Diminutive Byzantine church set back from line of High Street between buildings, square-plan with semi-circular apse to S, Greek Cross plan to interior with single stage tower over crossing.
Interior: broad piers to corners with pierced arches supporting central dome, arches ringed with tiles in section. Pilastered walls with stugged ashlar to base; plaque to W wall. Steps up to apsidal sanctuary.
Stained glass: tripartite with Christ to centre flanked by St Margaret and St Mildred; nook shafts dividing and flanking.
The church was required to slot into a space measuring just 26 feet in width. The church's unusual Byzantine design was chosen in part because it would alleviate the problem of allowing sufficient light into such a narrow space with taller buildings on either side. The founding stone was laid by Colonel MacLaren of the Craigs on 18 May 1927, and the church was completed almost exactly a year later. Despite the fact that the congregation had always been named St. Peter's, Bishop Walpole dedicated it to St. Mildred, with whom his late wife had shared a name. The name reverted to St. Peter's in 1978.