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Edinburgh is a city of churches. To be more precise, Victorian Edinburgh is a city of neo-Gothic churches: here the 'piscies' are in the foreground with the former St. Leonard's parish kirk in the far distance
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Episcopal church in the Southside.
©Richard Webb
The synagogue, built in 1932, serves Edinburgh's Orthodox Jewish community which has been traditionally centred on the Newington area of the city. It replaced an earlier building on the opposite side of the street where a 1930s block of flats now stands. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Scotland
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Commonly known as the Dick Vet, the 11-bay Edwardian Baroque college building was built in 1909. The Veterinary College was founded by William Dick (1793-1866), an Aberdeenshire farrier's son, who studied anatomy in Edinburgh, went to the London Veterinary College in 1817, and returned to set up his own veterinary college in Edinburgh.
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Dist:0.1km<br/>Edinburgh's southside. Wide street with view to Arthur's seat in Holyrood Park.
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Dist:0.1km<br/>A primary school.
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Dist:0.1km<br/>The church was built in the 1880s as the parish kirk for Newington. It was 'The Church of Christ' from 1932 until 1976. It is now the Catholic church of St. Margaret and St. Leonard.
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Dist:0.1km<br/>The church seen against the summit of Arthur's Seat.
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Dist:0.1km<br/>Sculpted roundel on the wall of Preston Street school. [[2523245]]
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Dist:0.1km<br/>Victorian primary school on the corner of East Preston Street and the Dalkeith Road. The junction was formerly the site of a gibbet for public executions.
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Dist:0.1km<br/>The Scottish Widows building at Dalkeith Road was opened in 1976. It was designed by Sir Basil Spence and it is a hexagonal, honeycomb shape that achieved awards for its design team.
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