OS1/11/105/121
| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| NEW COLLEGE (Free Church) | The New College & Free High Church College of the Free Church New College New College |
James Bonar Secretary Mr. Dowalls Guide Oliver & Boyds Alamanack P. O. [Post Office] Directory |
[Situation] A little N. [North] east of Castle Hill A large building in the Elizabethan style of [Architecture] It consists of two quadrangles [---] a communication with each [is] by a flight of Steps in the [---] The northern quadrangle is 84 [feet in] length and 56 in breadth within the [---] is adorned in front with three towers - the [---] ones are 121 feet high, and the other one on the [---] Corner, is 95 feet, The east side is occupied [---] of worship called the Free High Church, and [---] Sides Contains several Class Rooms, Senate, Hall, Library, [---] house for the principal, The business of the College [---] by a general committee (Revd Dr [Reverend Doctor] Cunningham Convener) Consisting of [---] Ministers, and Elders, a Treasurer and a Secretary, from this [---] selected an ordinary acting one, At present there are seven [Professorships] established viz Divinity, Divinity and Church History, Hebrew and [---] Language, Exegetical Theology, Moral Philosophy, Logic and [---] and natural Science, |
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| FREE HIGH CHURCH [Castle Hill, New College] | [Situation] A little N. [North] east of Castle Hill A large building in the Elizabethan style of [Architecture] It consists of two quadrangles [---] a communication with each [is] by a flight of Steps in the [---] The northern quadrangle is 84 [feet in] length and 56 in breadth within the [---] is adorned in front with three towers - the [---] ones are 121 feet high, and the other one on the [---] Corner, is 95 feet, The east side is occupied [---] of worship called the Free High Church, and [---] Sides Contains several Class Rooms, Senate, Hall, Library, [---] house for the principal, The business of the College [---] by a general committee (Revd Dr [Reverend Doctor] Cunningham Convener) Consisting of [---] Ministers, and Elders, a Treasurer and a Secretary, from this [---] selected an ordinary acting one, At present there are seven [Professorships] established viz Divinity, Divinity and Church History, Hebrew and [---] Language, Exegetical Theology, Moral Philosophy, Logic and [---] and natural Science, |
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[Page] 121Parish of The City of Edinburgh
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Words lost in foldThis Name Book refers to Edinburgh 1852 - Sheet 35
OS large scale Scottish town plans, 1847-1895 - Scale: 1:1056
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