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The Sacred Heart
On the south side of efw West Port, in an
opening of somewhat recent formation, leading to
Lauriston, the Jesuits have now a very large
church, dedicated to “The Sacred Heart,” and
capable of holding more than 1,000 hearers. It is
in the form of a great lecture hall rather than a
church, and was erected in 1860, by permission
of the Catholic Bishop Gillis, in such a form,
that if ever the order was suppressed in Scotland
the edifice might be used for educational
purposes. Herein is preserved a famous image
that once belonged to Holyrood, but was lately
discovered by E. Waterton, F.S.A., in a shop at
Peterborough.
source-Old and New Edinburgh
