Publication Account

Date 1981

Event ID 1018072

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1018072

A pre-Reformation hospital dedicated to St.Paul stood on the east side of Leith Wynd. Founded in 1469, it was used, first by General Leslie and then Cromwell after the battle of Dunbar, to house wounded soldiers. It retained its pauper inmates until 1750 when it was sold to the Charity Workhouse. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it was an almshouse, house of correction, training school for children and a textile factory (RCAM, 1951, 184).

Information from ‘Historic Edinburgh, Canongate and Leith: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1981).