Detail of entrance in close to Canongate Kilwinning Lodge, Canongate, Edinburgh.

Description Detail of entrance in close to Canongate Kilwinning Lodge, Canongate, Edinburgh.

Date 24/7/2013

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number DP 158542

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content The masonic Lodge Canongate Kilwinning (No 2) incorporates a late 17th century wing and circular stair tower seen here. The main block (a windowless lodge room) onto St John's Street dates from the late 1730s (Gifford, McWilliam & Walker, 213). There appears to have been some remodelling of the building as it had been extended east between 1877 (Ordnance Survey Town Plan 1:1056 (Edinburgh, surveyed 1876-7, sheet 36)) and 1894 (Ordnance Survey Town Plan 1:1056 (Edinburgh, 1894, sheet III.8.12)). By 1500 the tofts (land strips) behind the Canongate tenement frontages, which developed in the 16th century, contained buildings.This strip land boundary can still be seen in the Old Town of Edinburgh, although from the 17th century there was a move to amalgamate tofts and redevelop as courts and tenements. The Lodge Canongate Kilwinning does indeed show the change from toft to courtyard surrounded by tenements in the form of the stair tower and 17th century wing incorporated into it (Gifford, McWilliam & Walker, 81). The 1867 Improvement Act together with further improvements in the Old Town generally in the 1890s, along with two periods of rebuilding in the Canongate in the 1930s and 1950s means that the Canongate has been significantly remodelled, despite retaining its original burgh layout.

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