Detail of Third Floor pediment
SC 460279
Description Detail of Third Floor pediment
Catalogue Number SC 460279
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of A 39749
Scope and Content Detail of a pediment, the Tailors' Hall, Cowgate, Edinburgh The Tailors' Hall, built in 1621 for the Incorporation of Tailors, is a four-storeyed building which originally had a stair-tower. The Hall has been greatly altered over the years, having been used as a brewery, storehouse and a theatre. This pediment, which once stood above a dormer window in the stair-tower, is now embedded in 18th-century masonry. It is decorated with fleurs-de-lys and scrolls, and is inscribed: 'God give his blising to the tailzer craft in the good tovn of Edinburgh'. Apart from St Giles' Cathedral and the Magdalen Chapel, the Tailors' Hall is the most important surviving building in Edinburgh that has a link with a medieval trades corporation. In the 17th century there were 14 such guilds, each representing a trade. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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