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Edinburgh, 10-15 Princes Street

Cinema (20th Century), Hotel (20th Century), Town House (19th Century)

Site Name Edinburgh, 10-15 Princes Street

Classification Cinema (20th Century), Hotel (20th Century), Town House (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) 16 West Register Street; Palace Cinema; Crown Hotel; F W Woolworth's; Tontine Hotel; W Renton And Co

Canmore ID 115079

Site Number NT27SE 1087

NGR NT 25778 74016

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/115079

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Edinburgh, City Of
  • Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
  • Former Region Lothian
  • Former District City Of Edinburgh
  • Former County Midlothian

Architecture Notes

NT27SE 1087 25778 74016

Uncertain of exact location of 2 and 4 Princes Street

REFERENCE:

Sources: Dean of Guild Bundle 1807 January-May 16.4.1807

Pet. of Messrs Armstrong and Smith, clothiers

No 11 Princes St

Plan and elevation, unsigned - minor alterations

Sources: Dean of Guild Bundle 1813 January-June 10.6.1813

Pet. Andrew Rochead & Son, musical instrument makers

No 14 Princes Street

Minor alteration, lowering shop windows to floor

Plan and elevation, unsigned

Also on same day, petition for interior alteration

Sources: Dean of Guild 26.8.1813

Pet. Alexander Ainslie, saddler

No 12 Princes Street

Minor alteration, sunk floor into shop

Plan and elevation. Signed C B.

No.15 opened as the Palace Cinema in 1913. Designed by the architect R M Cameron. Closed 1955 and demolished to make way for the expansion of Woolworths & Co..

B Thomas 1984

Activities

Standing Building Recording (5 September 2011 - 2 July 2012)

Addyman Archaeology were commissioned to maintain a building recording exercise and archaeological watching brief on all ground breaking works associated with the renovation and partial demolition of the property at 10-15 Princes Street in the centre of Edinburgh. The building, which fronts on to Princes Street to the S and West Register Lane to the E and N, is undergoing conversion for use as a hotel. A detailed map regression undertaken by Andrew Wright showed a series of structures to have existed on site, most of which were removed by the 1920s. The first phase of works by Addyman Archaeology recording the fabric of the building demonstrated the N façade to be the only significant above ground survival from these earlier structures. The watching brief revealed that on the whole the present structure had been deeply terraced into the natural subsoil and directly overlay naturally banded boulder clays. Despite this, architectural fragments from earlier structures were recorded during the demolition works and a well was located during excavation in the interior of the building.

R.Cameron and K.Macfadyen, Addyman Archaeology 2012: OASIS-ID: addymana1-114140

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