Field Visit
Date 2 August 1999
Event ID 612324
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/612324
Door on Cowgate has two high relief carved stone label stops, flowers and leaves on left, grapes and vines on right (very deeply cut). The same door has two shields in corners of stone door frame: left shield has torch with two crossed staffs entwined with snakes; right shield has lettering and date.
Frieze of thirteen carvings above corner door on curve at base of turret, (left to right): (1) snake (?) (eroded), (2) apples and leaves, (3) portrait (?) head with moustache, (4) flower (?) (eroded), (5) [?] (eroded), (6) marrows (?), (7) frog or toad and toadstools (8) acorns and branch, (9) devil's head, (10) plums on branch, (11) thistle, (12) grapes and vine, (13) flower and leaves.
Built as an extension of the Livingston Institute for the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society.
Inscriptions : On right shield above door (raised letters and numbers):
E.M. / M.S. / 1903
Signatures : None Visible
Design period : 1902 - 1903
Year of unveiling : 1903
Information from Public Monuments and Sculpture Association (PMSA Work Ref : EDIN0062)