Following the launch of trove.scot in February 2025 we are now planning the retiral of some of our webservices. Canmore will be switched off on 24th June 2025. Information about the closure can be found on the HES website: Retiral of HES web services | Historic Environment Scotland
Falcon Hall. View from West. Demolished 1909, facade rebuilt in Duncan Street as the facade to Bartholomews, cartographers.
A 7937
Description Falcon Hall. View from West. Demolished 1909, facade rebuilt in Duncan Street as the facade to Bartholomews, cartographers.
Date c. 1889
Collection Records of the Royal Company of Merchants of the City of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number A 7937
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 560277
Scope and Content The former Falcon Hall, Morningside Road, Morningside, Edinburgh Falcon Hall, designed c.1814 by Thomas Hamilton for Alexander Falconar, stood on the east side of Morningside Road within the Canaan estate. The building incorporated Morningside Lodge, an impressive house built in 1780 for Lord Provost William Coulter. The palatial façade had an imposing entrance portico with 12 great columns of Craigleith stone, flanked on the ground floor by statues of Nelson and Wellington, and decorated with a number of carved stone falcons. The gardens extended over nine acres. Thomas Hamilton, who designed the Royal High School and the Royal College of Physicians, was commissioned by Falconar to build a façade based on the work of John Nash. It had much in common with Nash's design for Buckingham Palace, which it pre-dated. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Accession Number 1985/4
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/405924
Attribution & Restricted Use Summary
Attribution: © Courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland (Merchant Company of Edinburgh Collection)
Licence Type: Limited
You may solely view this material on the Canmore Site. No other use is permitted.
