Interior-detail of doorway dated 1576 in entrance Hall
ED 1107
Description Interior-detail of doorway dated 1576 in entrance Hall
Date 6/1965
Collection Records of the Scottish National Buildings Record, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number ED 1107
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 488212
Scope and Content Inscription from Tweeddale House, Tweeddale Court, High Street, Edinburgh Tweeddale House, built in 1576 for Neil Laing, Keeper of the Signet, and his wife, Elizabeth Danielstoune, takes its name from John Laing, first Marquis of Tweeddale to whom it was left in 1645. The entrance door in the original north wall of the house bears the initials of Neil Laing and those of his wife, the date 1576 and the words 'THE.FEIR.OF.THE.LORD.PRESERVITH.THE.LYFE.' Tweeddale House, bought in 1664 by William Bruce, the King's Surveyor who reconstructed Holyrood Palace for Charles II, became the head office of the British Linen Bank in 1791, and latterly the headquarters of Oliver and Boyd, publishers. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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