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Publication Account
Date 1981
Event ID 1018079
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1018079
The first reference to a gramnar school in Leith occurs in Edinburgh Town Council Records in 1521 (McAra, 1960, 2). The school after 1560 fell into the care of the Kirk Session and by 1623 is known to have occupied the vaults of Old Trinity House. In the J650s, for brief periods, Cromwellian troops occupied the house and scholars were forced to meet in a loft above a soaphouse in St.Andrews Street. This move was temporary and in 1657, the school was once again convened in the Old Trinity House. In 1710 a new school was erected in the south-west corner of the churchyard, but by the end of the century complaints were made about the damp condition of the structure (McKay, 1934, 12, 19). Another school was subsequently built in the Links in 1806.
Information from ‘Historic Edinburgh, Canongate and Leith: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1981).
