Old Photograph The Priory Church of St Mary of Mount Carmel Scotland

Old photograph of The Priory Church of St Mary of Mount Carmel in South Queensferry near Edinburgh, Scotland. Also called called the Priory Church or St Mary's Episcopal Church it is a congregation of the Scottish Episcopal Church. The church building was constructed in the mid 15th century for the Carmelite Order. It served as the parish church in the 16th and 17th centuries, but subsequently fell into disrepair. In 1890 it was restored and reopened by the Scottish Episcopal Church. It is now the only medieval Carmelite church still in use in the British Isles.



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