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Built as Hope Park Chapel in the 1820s, the neoclassical building on Clerk Street that is now Edinburgh's Queen's Hall began life as a place of worship. Designed by architect Robert Brown and completed around 1824, it served as a church, later known as Newington and St Leonard's Parish Church, for over 150 years until the congregation departed in 1976. Its closure coincided with a search by several Scottish ensembles, including the bodies that became the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the Scott...