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Publication Account
Date 1915
Event ID 1088212
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1088212
36. ‘Resting-house’, near Clints.
Some ¾ mile south-east of Clints and about 300 yards to the north of the county boundary are the ruins of a building marked on the O.S. map ‘Resting House’. The original building, of which only a portion of the vaulted lower storey now remains, has been oblong on plan measuring internally 20 feet 9 inches by 14 feet, with walls from 2 feet 9 inches to 3 feet 6 inches in thickness. The entrance, defended by a bar - the slot for which is visible in the wall - is in the east wall and measures 5 feet 9 inches by 3 feet 1 inch. The vault was apparently a semicircular barrel-vault springing from a scarcement 3 feet 7 inches above the level of the door sill to a height of 11 feet. At the level of the door lintel a row of joist holes spaced some 5 feet apart indicates the existence of an intermediate floor, though of small dimensions, between the ground floor and the vault. Built of the local greywacke, the masonry is of a rude description. The lintel and one or two of the jambs tones of the door are the only pieces of freestone visible.
A smaller structure has subsequently been erected, abutting on the east wall, making the plan T-shaped. It measures internally14 feet 9 inches by 10 feet, with walls 2 feet 1 inch in thickness*.
Being close to the ‘Girthgate’, there is a tradition that this was the place where the monks and pilgrims rested for refreshment, but there is no authentic history regarding the building. On the map of 1771 showing the line of the Girthgate (fig. 15) it is designated ‘Rashlaw House’, which may be for Rush-law, from the coarse rush-like grass growing on the high moor or law.
See History of Channelkirk, p. 668 (illus.); Stat. Acct., xiii. p. 390.
RCAHMS 1915
OS Map: Ber., xiii. SW.
*From plan and particulars kindly supplied by Mr A. Webster Peacock, F.S.A. Scot., Architect, Edinburgh.
