Photographic copy of drawing by J Houston showing Netherbow Port
ED 2631
Description Photographic copy of drawing by J Houston showing Netherbow Port
Date c. 1950
Collection Copies of sketches of buildings in Edinburgh by J Houston
Catalogue Number ED 2631
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 426749
Scope and Content Drawing of the 17th century Netherbow Port, High Street, Edinburgh The Netherbow Port was the east gate and main entrance to the city. It was one of six gates in the 16th-century Flodden Wall that surrounded the Old Town, and the boundary between Edinburgh and the Burgh of the Canongate. In 1606 the gate was remodelled on the Porte St Honore in Paris. It had a central pend or passage with a guardhouse on either side. Above the pend hung a large bell, cast in Holland, that tolled the curfew for the City. The Netherbow Port was taken by the Earl of Hertford in 1544, withstood numerous assaults in 1571 when Kirkcaldy of Grange held Edinburgh for Mary Queen of Scots, and admitted Prince Charles Edward Stuart (Prince Charles Edward Stewart or Bonnie Prince Charlie) in 1745 with no opposition. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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