Mansfield Traquair

This guide to Mansfield Traquair in Edinburgh follows the building from its 1873 foundation as a Catholic Apostolic Church through the eight years, from 1893 to 1901, that Dublin-born artist Phoebe Anna Traquair spent covering its walls and ceiling in angels, prophets and apocalyptic murals, her first paid professional commission. It then traces the building's decline after its congregation died out in 1958, and the neighbors and trustees who spent decades fighting to keep the murals from disappearing.