60 Pleasance and Quaker Building Edinburgh

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Date 1 October 2015 - 31 December 2016

Event ID 1024106

Category Project

Type Project

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Headland archaeology undertook archaeological monitoring of

internal alterations and extension to the Pleasance Theatre Building

including the construction of disabled access and photographic

survey of the Quaker Meeting House at 42–76 Pleasance, Edinburgh.

Information from Aisling Fitzpatrick and Matt Ginnever (Headland Archaeology) April 2017. OASIS ID: headland1-276540

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Event	Type	Subtype	Notes	Date
1024107	RECORDING	STANDING BUILDING RECORDING	A photographic survey of the Quaker meeting house was undertaken following the removal of a wooden or plywood floors. The structure consisted of a rectangular stone brick building with a roughcast exterior and plain interior room. The original layout of the structure appeared to have been a single large room, with 3 pairs of arched windows on the eastern and western elevations. A fireplace was located centrally on the southern wall, a small cupboard or niche on the eastern wall and the original entrance door in the western wall. Large fragments of render survived on the walls, although it is unclear if this was original or not. Extensive later alterations were evident; the arched tops of the southernmost window in the eastern wall and the two windows in the southern wall, had been squared off, also with roughcast stone. A line of holes for a raised floor level could be seen cutting halfway across the windows, particularly in the southern half of the structure, possible the result of a later addition of a partial mezzanine floor. The southern window on the western wall had been bricked up at some stage, and two additional doors had been punched through the southern wall, one of which had then also been bricked up. At the north-eastern corner of the building, the arched window had been converted into a door, and evidence of the remnants of a staircase could be seen as a shadow on the eastern wall interior. Removal of the floorboards of the building revealed concrete floor supports of modern origin, with brick, concrete and breeze block supporting joists for the timbers. There was no evidence of earlier flooring. [...]	1 October 2015
1024108	RECORDING	WATCHING BRIEF	NT 26286 73360 A programme of work was undertaken, October 2015 – December 2016, during internal alterations and extension to 60 Pleasance, the Pleasance Theatre Building, and the former Quaker Meeting House. A basic survey was undertaken of the meeting house and ground-breaking [...]	1 October 2015

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Archive from watching brief at Quaker Meeting Hall, Pleasance, Edinburgh

60 Pleasance and Quaker Building Edinburgh

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