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Field Visit
Date 2 August 1999
Event ID 612510
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/612510
Square carved stone relief framed by architectural moulding (red sandstone) with two winged heads with a wreath between them held by two hands. Within the wreath are a crown and a cordiner's tool.
An integral stone panel below contains the inscription, and has a face at the top centre and at the bottom centre, and a scroll at either end.
The panel dates from 1696 and was reinstated on the façade of this building when it was erected in 1887.
A cordiner, or cordwainer, is a shoemaker.
Inscriptions : On panel within relief at bottom (incised letters):
BEHOLD how good a thing it is, / And how becoming well. / Together such as brethren are / in unity to dwell.
AD 1696
[On rectangular panel in stone, at first floor level on the same building, above No.64 (raised letters):
LOVE . GOD . ABOVE / ALL / . AND . YOUR . NEIGHBOUR / AS . YOURSELF (within pediment, thistle on top, architectural frame)]
Signatures : None
Design period : 1696
Year of unveiling : 1887
Information from Public Monuments and Sculpture Association (PMSA Work Ref : EDIN0162)
