Gallery Plan; Ground Floor Plan (incorporating excavations)
SC 426700
Description Gallery Plan; Ground Floor Plan (incorporating excavations)
Catalogue Number SC 426700
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of EDD 222/7 P
Scope and Content Ground floor plan of the Tron Kirk showing excavations, High Street, Edinburgh The Tron Kirk church was built as 'Christ Church at the Tron' c.1637 by John Mylne to house a congregation displaced when St Giles became a cathedral under Charles I's charter of 1633. It took its name from the 'tron' or weigh beam that once stood here. The excavations in 1974 revealed the remains of buildings and cellars and a 16th-century narrow cobbled winding street named Marlin's Wynd after a Frenchman, Walter Merlion who first paved the High Street in 1532. Walter Merlion was buried at the mouth of Marlin's Wynd, in the High Street. The grave, marked by six stones in the shape of a coffin lid, was covered over when the Tron Kirk was built c.1637. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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