Ecclesiastical Architecture News Today

Duo Dickinson on when the fine lines between symbolism, imitation and hypocrisy in architecture.

The counties of West Lothian, East Lothian and Midlothian surround Edinburgh, and contain a spectacular range of architecture and archaeological remains. It is all superbly catalogued in the newly revised Lothian edition of the Pevsner series Buildings of Scotland (Yale, £45). The volume covers Lowland towns such as South Queensferry, with its distinctive tolbooth steeple from the 1720s; Gifford, with its stark but handsome kirk of the same period; and Haddington, birthplace of Jane Welsh C...