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F 2150
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Date 1959
Collection Papers of John Fleming, custom agent, bonded warehouse-keeper, antiquarian and photographer, Glasgow
Catalogue Number F 2150
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 395189
Scope and Content Pre-restoration view of rear, Greyfriars Convent (Inverkeithing Museum), Queen Street, Inverkeithing, Fife Greyfriars Convent, a House of Franciscan Friars, was founded about 1350. In 1559 it was sold to John Swinton who probably converted the old guesthouse into a house for himself, and quarried stone from the other buildings. It now serves as a museum. This is the house before its restoration in 1932-4. The stonework is still harled - as it probably had been since it was built - and there is no sign of the 14th-century style pointed windows visible in later photographs. Most Scottish masonry from the Middle Ages to the 18th century was harled - covered with rough-cast cement to protect it from the weather. This would probably have been painted using locally available pigments. The results could be quite colourful. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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