184 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Broughton.
been placed along both sides of a road that ran
east and west; those on the south being more
detached, spread away upward nearly to York
Place. The western end of the hamlet was demolished
when the present Broughton market
was constructed. From that portion, which had
been a kind of square, a path led through the
fields, where now London Street stands, to Canonmills.
One by one the cottages have disappeared, in
their rude construction, with forestairs and loopbuilding
with a graceful spire 180 feet high. It
was erected on the site of an ancient quarry,
1859-61, after designs by J. F. Rocheid, at the
cost of ;613,000, and is in a mixed later English
and Tudor style.
Heriot?s school, also on the west side of the
street, is one of the elementary institutions which
the governors of George Heriot?s Hospital were
empowered by Act of Parliament to erect from
their surplus revenues., It is attended by about
3,400 boys and girls, and rises from a spacious and
BROUGHTON BURN, 1850. From a Dmwiw by William Ckanniag, iff tkt hssessim of Dr. 3. A, .??,,+,.)
hole windows, contrasting strongly with the new
and fashionable streets that have replaced them.
In the modern Broughton Street is a plain Ionic
edifice, long used as a place of worship by the
disciples of Edward Irving, and near it, at the
south-east angle of Albany Street,.-the Independent
church was built in 1816, at a cost of A4,000, and
improved in 1867 at a cost of more than A200; a
plain and unpretending edifice.
The Gaelic church, which adjoins the Independent
church, is the old Catholic Apostolic,
which was bought in 1875 for about &~,ooo, improved
for about _f;2,000, and opened in October
1876.
SL Mary?s Free church is a beautiful Gothic
airy arcade, under which they can play in wet
weather.
At the south-west corner of Broughton Place is
St. James?s Episcopal chapel, which, in architecture
externally, is assimilated with the houses of the
street. It was built in 1829, and has attached to
it, on the north, a neat school, built in 1869.
Fronting Broughton Place, and at the eastern end
thereof, stands the United Presbyterian church,
built in 1821, at the cost of A7,ogg. It is a
spacious edifice, with a very handsome tetrastyle
Doriciportico, and underwent repairs in 1853 and
1870, at the united cost of A4,ooo. It is chiefly
remarkable as the scene of the ministrations of the
late Dr. John Brown.
