This addition is located at St Cuthbert's, a Scottish Episcopal Church in Colinton, a suburb in the south west of Edinburgh.
The Church grew out of the Mission to Colinton, which was founded in 1883 to serve a community which had been growing rapidly since the arrival of the railway; work on a church building began in 1888, and the building was finally consecrated and the first Rector appointed in 1893.
The original church building was considerably smaller than that of the present day, corresponding roughly to the region between the altar screen and the front porch. It was built largely with the financial support of two local residents, Oliver Riddell and Rowand Anderson, supported by subscriptions from the congregation. Both men were also instrumental in the extension of the 1890s, when the Lady Chapel and its seating were added.
The Church Hall was added in 1926; and the extension of the 1930s, which lengthened the nave and added the choir vestry.
A particular feature of the inside of the Church is the richly decorated ceiling in both the nave and the chancel. Rowand Anderson, who both designed and partially funded the original building, designed both sets of decoration, and the extension to the nave was eventually decorated in the same style when the interior was renovated in the late 1980s. Originally the walls of the church were also richly decorated, but these decorations fell victim to changing fashions in the late 1930s, when they were replaced with the current plain cream walls.
Several of Anderson’s other interior features survive intact, including the woodwork of the pews and the altar screen. The choir stalls were acquired from Holy Trinity Church in the late 1940s, and the silver cross and candlesticks on the main altar were designed by J. H. Auld in 1950, as a memorial to the former rector Dean William Perry, who died in 1948.
The cache is located on Westgarth Avenue, outwith the church grounds. It is a magnetic container, so you may require tweezer to aid in extracting the log. It is quite high up so to be out of sight of muggles.
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