St Vincent Street. View of East side.
ED 4317
Description St Vincent Street. View of East side.
Date c. 1954
Catalogue Number ED 4317
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 502978
Scope and Content Howe Street, Edinburgh, looking north towards St Stephen's Church Howe Street was a 'route of communication' for the northern New Town from Queen Street, and the main road to the village of Stockbridge. Feuing started around 1807, and building consisted almost entirely of handsome tenements, which step down the hill. The wide expanse of the street, which sweeps downhill towards the huge portal of St Stephen's Church, is surfaced with granite setts. Royal Circus lies to the left, and the Ionic pilastered tenement (right) forms the corner block with Great King Street. In 1814 Robert Dundas, Writer to the Signet, complained that the road down from Queen Street was 'in a bad repair and not made to its proper breadth'. A good 'route of communication' had been part of a plan to induce people to buy flats in Howe Street. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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