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Edinburgh, Kirkgate, Carter's Convening Rooms

Meeting Place (19th Century)

Site Name Edinburgh, Kirkgate, Carter's Convening Rooms

Classification Meeting Place (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Carter's Land

Canmore ID 144109

Site Number NT27NE 281

NGR NT 2700 7608

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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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

Location centred on Kirkgate, general, - unable to locate Carter's Land or Convening Rooms.

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

Scottish Record Office.

1726 GD 399/73/18, 21, 24, 25 and 31.

Vouchers of expenditure on building the Carters' Convening House. They include the Wright's account for floor, windows, chimney piece, and alteration of the table (18).

1766 GD 399/100/3

Extract tract to John Brown and others of the garden at the Kirkgate of Leith in which the Incorporations Convening House stands, for 150 years subject to building conditions. (Sheriff Court Books, Edinburgh, 13 May 1768)

1782 GD 399/55/4

Account for work on the Convening House

1799-1801 GD 399/105/1, 4, 5, and 10

Papers relating to the negotiations between the Incorporation and the Associate Burgher Congregation of Leith. (1)Letter: Concerns the state of the entry to their meeting house which ids 'so low as not to admit of an ordinary man's height.' 1799

(4)Memo: Proposes altering the entry to the meeting house through the Carter's tenement and rebuilding the Carter's Convening House. 1800.

(5)Proposal to rebulding the Convening House and alter the entry. 1801.

(10)Feu contract between the Carter's and the Congregation with provision for rebuilding the Convening House according to specifications in the contract. 1801.

1815-1816 GD 399/111/1, 2, 3 and 5

Papers relating to feu of a tenement to the Burgher congregation

(1)A committee to be appointed to treat with the Congregations Committee for fueing small houses at the back of their church. 1815.

(2)Specification of new tenement to be built for the Carter's. 1816.

(3)Congregation's committee proposes to feu the ground of the tenement which the Carter's intend to demolish. 1816.

1802 GD 399/61/21

Mason's account to the Incorporation of Carter's for work on an inscription and coat of arms on the Convening House (See GD 399/5/4) John Russell, Mason. Payment to Mr. Philip for drawing the draught included ?5.4.12

1823 and 1824 GD 399/67/5 and 8

Receipt for the cost of the chair 'furnished and put up in Convening House' and account for pointing and varnishing the new chair.

1687 GD 99/29/2

Discharge by Robert Anderson, slater, for the cost of 'pinteng the backet tayell land belongen to the carteres of Leith.'

1724 GD 399/35/10

Account for work on the forestair in the Kirkgate [property belonging to the Carters]

1724 GD 399/35/20

Wrights account for work on the Carter's land on the Kirkgate.

1760 GD 399/174

Discharge by Andrew Hill of sum due to his deceased brother Alexander Hill, Wright in Leith, for work done on repairing the Society of the Dean of Guild.

1772 GD 399/50/9 and 10

Wright's and glazier's accounts for work at Kirkgate.

1777 GD 399/100/5

Tack to Thomas Wallace, mason, of a 'laigh house', two 'high' nouses, two garrets above and a 'toofall or smithy' in the Kirkgate, for 10 years, in the Incorporation laying a new brick floor in the laigh house.

1772-1775 GD 399/51/1-6

Measurement and repoerts on work done on the Carter's property.

1779 GD 399/100/7

Tack to John Boog, barber and wigmaker in Leith, of a high dwelling house and two garrets in the Kirkgate, for 8 years, with liberty to strike out a new window and put up a partition in the house and to convert the two garrets into one 'so as to make room for the shuffleboard he intends to put up there' and to put out skylights in the roof.

1777 GD 399/100/4

Tack to John Kellie, merchant i Leith, of two Laigh houses in the Kirkgate, for 10 years, with power to strike out an opening between the houses and 'to hang a sufficient door thereon' and to shut up the present door and lay a new brick floor in one house at the Incorporation expense.

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