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Field Visit
Date 30 September 2002
Event ID 613256
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/613256
Door lintel combines the initials of Clement Cor for whom the tenement was built, and those of his wife, Helen Bellenden. The initials flank a shield carved with a heart in the 1st and 4th quarters and a rose in the 2nd and 3rd quarters. Below is the inscription.
Inspected By : D. King
Inscriptions : Either side of shield (raised letters): C.C H.B
Below shield (raised letters): SPES . ALTERA . VITAE . 1590
Signatures : None
Design period : c1590
Information from Public Monuments and Sculpture Association (PMSA Work Ref : EDIN0752)
