General view of Anchor Close showing inscribed lintel above doorway
SC 426684
Description General view of Anchor Close showing inscribed lintel above doorway
Date 1900 to 1930
Collection Collection of photographs by George Chrystal and Francis Maxwell Chrystal, photographers, Edinburgh,
Catalogue Number SC 426684
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of ED 7254
Scope and Content Carved lintel in Anchor Close, High Street, Edinburgh Anchor Close, so narrow 'that there is hardly space for fresh air', dates from the 17th century. It led off the High Street down to the Nor' Loch and could be closed at night by a gate. On the west side of the close above a modern doorway is a 17th-century lintel with the inscription 'LORD BE MERCIFVL TO ME'. Anchor Close was home to George Drummond, planner of the New Town; William Smellie who printed the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica in 1768; and the Anchor Tavern where the Crochallan Fencibles, Robert Burns' drinking club, met. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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