User:CPClegg/Lady Yester's Kirk
The manse was vested in the Church of Scotland's General Trustees in 1931.[1] The congregation united with St John's on 2 January 1941.[1] On 20 June 1956, the congregation united with the Highland Church. J. MacLeod, minister of Highland, became minister of the united charge.[2][3] On 28 Febuary 1979, the congregation united with Greyfriars Kirk to form Greyfriars Tolbooth and Highland.[4] [5] At Graham's request, Pugin supplied the design for the spire. Pugin's design is a a copy of his unexecuted design for the spire of the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St George in Southwark.
A Roman Catholic, Pugin considered Scotland's Presbyterian national church an "abomination of desolation" and neither sought nor received credit for his contribution to designing its assembly hall. Pugin would later describe the spire as "far from good in itself but far too good for its purpose". "one of the great landmarks on the skyline of Scotland's capital"[6]