General view
IN 5638
Description General view
Date 1975
Collection List C Survey
Catalogue Number IN 5638
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 693505, SC 1642217
Scope and Content View of Nos 1-7 High Street, Inverness This block of tenements with shops below was built in 1812. The four-storeyed block is built of ashlar masonry with a string-course above the first-floor window, and is bowed on the corner to Church Street (left). The shop fronts are all modern. This shows the block with its severe Classical styling, seen in its architraved and corniced windows. The modern shop fronts replace earlier examples. There are unusual inscribed Biblical texts between the first-floor windows. It is unclear why this building features these Biblical texts so prominently on its façade. Perhaps the block was owned by one of the local Churches, or by a landlord who was keen to share a moral message with the townspeople. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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