Detail of carved pediment panel at second floor above 54 St Mary's Street, Edinburgh.
DP 161670
Description Detail of carved pediment panel at second floor above 54 St Mary's Street, Edinburgh.
Date 26/9/2013
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number DP 161670
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content This shows an empty pedimented panel at second-floor level within 52-58 St Mary's Street, Edinburgh. One of the earliest major redevelopments in this area was the creation of St Mary’s Street (along with Jeffrey Street to the north) as the north-south route over the ridge of the Old Town. The Lord Provost at the time, William Chambers (1800-83, Lord Provost 1865-9) implemented the widening of several narrow streets and wynds in the Old Town as part of the City’s Improvement Act 1867. Alongside this, tenements were improved and new streets were created to provide access through the area. St Mary’s Street was built more or less along the line of St Mary’s Wynd in 1867-9 as a result of this Act. The tenements on the east side replaced smaller scale houses which were severely overcrowded, and were built in the Scots Baronial style to designs by architects David Cousins (1809-78) and John Lessels (1809-83), featuring turrets, crowstepped gables and carved stone finials, with much improved facilities internally. This triangular pedimented panel has lost its sculpture, but may have had a datestone within it.
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