St. Giles Ancient Church (Edinburgh) Act 1879
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1879 c. ccxxi |
| Year | 1879 |
[42 & 43 VICT.] St. Giles Ancient Church [Oh. CCXXi.]
{Edinburgh).
CHAPTER ccxxi.
An Act to make provision in regard to the Restoration of the A.c 1879.
Ancient Church of St, Giles, in the city of Edinburgh.
[15th August
1.879.]
W
HEREAS by the Act of the session of the twenty-third and
twenty-fourth years of the reign of Her present Majesty,
chapter fifty, intituled " An Act to abolish the Annuity Tax in
" Edinburgh and Montrose, and to make provision in regard to the
" stipends of the ministers in that city and burgh, and also to
" make provision for the patronage of the church of North Leitb,"
it was, inter alia, provided that the whole rights of administration
and custody of the New North Church (usually known as West St.
Giles),
in the city of Edinburgh, which the magistrates and council
of the said city had in or pertaining to the same, should be trans-
ferred from the magistrates and council to and vested in the Com-
missioners by the Act appointed and incorporated under the said
Act, (herein-after called the Edinburgh Ecclesiastical Commis-
sioners,) and the said Act was amended by the Act of the session
of the thirty-third and thirty-fourth years of the reign of Her
present Majesty, chapter eighty-seven :
And whereas at the passing of the last-recited Act the ancient
church of St. Giles in the said city was divided for congregational
purposes by walls which formed no part of the original structure
into three distinct churches, viz.: (1) the choir, or High Kirk,
(2) the southern transept, or Old Kirk, and (3) the nave, or New
North Church (usually called "West St. Giles Church) :
And whereas the part of the building forming the southern
transept thereof and formerly known as the Old Kirk has now
been added to and incorporated with the High Kirk, the dividing
walls between them having been removed :
And whereas it is now proposed that a complete restoration of
the said ancient church should be effected, so that it shall form, as
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