St Mary's, Dalmahoy
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St Mary’s is part of the Scottish Episcopal Church and is situated a few
miles outside Edinburgh in the grounds of the
Dalmahoy House, now the Dalmahoy Hotel & Country Club.
St
Mary's Dalmahoy was established by the then residents of Dalmahoy House,
Lord and Lady Aberdour, in 1850. Land was granted by George Sholto Douglas,
the 17th Earl of Morton, for a church and a burial ground, as well
as for a rectory, a schoolroom, a schoolmaster's house and a choir
house. The church was designed by the architect John Henderson, and
consecrated at a service led by the Bishop of Edinburgh on 24 September
1850. Although standing on the private Dalmahoy Estate, the church was,
from the beginning, intended to be part of the wider Episcopal Church in
Scotland and used for public worship. In contrast, the burial ground,
initially at least, was for family use only.
To understand why
the Douglas family built St Mary's you need look no further than an
account of the (Church of Scotland) Ratho Parish written in 1845. This
noted that 17 Episcopalians lived in the parish, most of whom were
members of the family of the Earl of Morton. Two of the Earl's five sons
entered the Anglican priesthood, one of whom, Arthur, became the Bishop
of Aberdeen and Orkney in 1883. St Mary's was therefore built to allow
the Douglas family, and other Episcopalians in the area, to worship
according to their conscience.
Rt. Rev. the Hon. Arthur Gascoigne Douglas was a participant in the
consecration of St Mary's Church, Dalmahoy in 1850, where he was subsequently buried in 1905
See also:
St Mary's
cemetery where many Douglas gravestones can be seen.
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