Detail of two doorways showing inscribed lintels (postcard, Knox Series)
ED 13355
Description Detail of two doorways showing inscribed lintels (postcard, Knox Series)
Date c. 1920
Collection Collection of postcards of Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number ED 13355
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 488194
Scope and Content Carved lintels from Advocate's Close, High Street, Edinburgh Advocate's Close, so narrow 'that there is hardly space for fresh air', dates from the 16th century. It led off the High Street down to the Nor' Loch and is one of the most picturesque in the Old Town. The carved lintels from the ground floor of a six-storey tenement built for Clement Cor in 1590 are inscribed: 'BLISSIT.BE GOD.OF.AL.HIS.GIFTS.1616' and 'SPES.ALTERA.VITAE.1590' or 'a second hope of life' and the initials CC and HB. Advocate's Close, named Cant's, Clement Cor's and then Stewart's Close, was named after James Stewart of Goodtrees who was Lord Advocate from 1692-1713. In 1590 Cor, a burgess of the city, built a house in Cant's Close when he married Helen Bellenden. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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