View of ceiling detail, Moray House
SC 487998
Description View of ceiling detail, Moray House
Catalogue Number SC 487998
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of D 93550 PO
Scope and Content Detail from ceiling in Moray House, Moray House, Canongate, Edinburgh Moray House was built for Mary, Dowager Countess of Home in 1618 and given to her daughter, Countess of Moray in 1643. It was visited by Charles I, and Cromwell lived here on two occasions. It is now a teachers' training college. Moray House, once one of the grandest of Canongate mansions, has intricately carved ceiling plasterwork. The small panels are decorated with lions, griffons, human masks, a figure with a baton, sprays of flowers, thistles and fleurs-de-lys in relief. Oliver Cromwell lived in Moray House in 1648 on his first visit to Edinburgh. In 1650, after his victory at the Battle of Dunbar, he returned to winter in the house, holding assemblies and issuing orders 'to the perverted, unruly Scots'. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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