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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
ST PATRICK'S CHAPEL AND SCHOOL (Roman Catholic) [Bristo Place] St Patrick's Chapel Roman Catholic Catholic directory for Scotland [Situation] At the South East end of Bristo Place.
A moderate sized Chapel well fitted with galleries &c. the front is ornamented with buttresses, and surmounted by a cross. It is seated for 750 of a congregation but it is at present. far too small for the numbers attending a service it is often times crowded to the number 1200. The morning service is free to all there is [sacrament] at noon and evening service but those unable to pay are not excluded. Three clergymen officiates here who has a free house or manse in Brown Square and recieves a fixed stipend of £40 raised from seat rents, underneath the chapel is a school house, about 200 pupils receives in it, the [ordinary] course of an English education £10 is allowed by government for each Governent pupil Teacher there are 6 here.
BRIGHTON STREET Brighton Street
Brighton Street
Corner Tickets
Post Office Directory
[Situation] Leaving the North side of Lothian Street.
A short street of well built houses branching Northward [---] Lothian Street occupied by a [respectable] class of Citizens, it has two unendowed Schools and Religious Sect Known by the name of Morrisonians have a Chapel here.

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Parish of St Cuthbert

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This Name Book refers to Edinburgh 1852 - Sheet 35
OS large scale Scottish town plans, 1847-1895 - Scale: 1:1056

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