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Edinburgh, Corstophine, Dovecot. General view.
SC 565492
Description Edinburgh, Corstophine, Dovecot. General view.
Collection H D Wyllie
Catalogue Number SC 565492
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of ED 3347
Scope and Content Corstorphine Dovecot, Dovecot Road, Corstorphine, Edinburgh Corstorphine Dovecot, a 16th-century structure, stands near to the site of Corstorphine Castle, the 14th-century former stronghold of the Forrester family. Although the dovecot is not as old as the castle, it was undoubtedly associated with it. Corstorphine Dovecot stands behind the wall of the garden of the Edinburgh Tapestry Company, founded as the Dovecot Studios in 1912. The dovecot is beehive-shaped, with a flat roof, and is lined with 1,060 stone boxes for nesting pigeons. Like many Scottish dovecots, its preservation probably owes much to the fact that King James I decreed it a felony to destroy a 'doocot', and the old superstition that its destruction meant the death, within a year, of the 'lady of the house'. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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