Edinburgh, 8-10 Gloucester Street. Detail of carved lintel on David Robert's House, with a plaque declaring that he lived here. Insc: 'David Roberts, R.A, Landscape Painter, Was Born Here On 24th Octo ...

Description Edinburgh, 8-10 Gloucester Street. Detail of carved lintel on David Robert's House, with a plaque declaring that he lived here. Insc: 'David Roberts, R.A, Landscape Painter, Was Born Here On 24th October 1796. Erected By The Cockburn Association In Conjunction With The Royal Scottish Academy' and 'Fear God Only, IG. 1605.IR'

Date 4/1961

Catalogue Number ED 5619/4

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 516133

Scope and Content Detail of inscribed lintel, Duncan's Land, Gloucester Street, Edinburgh Duncan's Land, a late 18th-century house, stands on the east side of Gloucester Street, which was formerly Church Lane, the old route from the village of Stockbridge to St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh. The house was restored in 1974. This lintel, built in above one of the doors of the house, originally came from a demolished building in Old Town when Bank Street was being constructed at the top of The Mound. It is inscribed 'Feare God onlye, 1605' and bears the initials 'IR'. The 'Land' or tenement was an outcome of the cramped conditions of the medieval walled Old Town of Edinburgh where merchants owned narrow enclosed plots of land on which they built their houses. The parts covered by buildings were called Lands. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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