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Edinburgh, 65, 67 St Leonard's Hill

Public House (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Edinburgh, 65, 67 St Leonard's Hill

Classification Public House (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Jeanie Deans' Tryste

Canmore ID 52442

Site Number NT27SE 395

NGR NT 26511 72895

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/52442

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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

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Publication Account (1951)

NT27SE 395 2651 7290

No. 147. Vaulted basement, 67 St. Leonard's Hill.

In the courtyard at the back of 67 St Leonard's Hill, there is an oblong vault, dating to all appearance from the 17th century, which now supports one of the sheds of the James Clark School. The structure is of rubble and runs roughly N. and S., one end containing the entrance and the other a window; but neither opening is original as it now stands. There is an aumbry on the right of the doorway and the W wall contains three arched recesses. At the S end of the barrel-vaulted ceiling is a hatch, through which a chimney-flue seems to have been led at some time after the vault's construction.

RCAHMS 1951, visited c.1941

Project (1997)

The Public Monuments and Sculpture Association (http://www.pmsa.org.uk/) set up a National Recording Project in 1997 with the aim of making a survey of public monuments and sculpture in Britain ranging from medieval monuments to the most contemporary works. Information from the Edinburgh project was added to the RCAHMS database in October 2010 and again in 2012.

The PMSA (Public Monuments and Sculpture Association) Edinburgh Sculpture Project has been supported by Eastern Photocolour, Edinburgh College of Art, the Edinburgh World Heritage Trust, Historic Scotland, the Hope Scott Trust, The Old Edinburgh Club, the Pilgrim Trust, the RCAHMS, and the Scottish Archive Network.

Field Visit (6 December 2001)

Relief carving of a man on horseback and a standing woman. He is handing her an object. Inscription above them in a scroll. Horse's bridle in metal. The relief is in a sandstone surround which continues as a stringcourse.

Jeanie Deans is a character in Sir Walter Scott's novel 'The Heart of Midlothian' (1818)

Inspected By : A. Taubman

Inscriptions : On banner above figures: JEANIE DEANS TRYSTE

Signatures : None Visible

Information from Public Monuments and Sculpture Association (PMSA Work Ref : EDIN1039)

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