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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 710836
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/710836
NT07NW 12 0019 7713
(NT 0019 7713) Templars' Tenements (NR)
OS 25" map (1856).
NMRS REFERENCE
Demolished 1886 - S side of High Street near St Michael's Church.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
Three buildings on the S side of The Cross, which formerly belonged to the Knights Templars. Lord Torphichen still retains the superiority of them.
Name Book 1856.
The so-called 'Mint' or town-house of the Knights Hospitallers in Linlithgow was built in the late 15th or early 16th century (after the Knights Templar had been suppressed). It was demolished in the late 19th century. Its lay-out (see plans and illustrations) incorporated a two-storeyed hall wing extending along one side of an inner courtyard; adjoining the SE end of the hall block there was a self-contained, five storeyed tower-house. Little is now known of the purposes served by the other apartments, especially in the block fronting the street, where there may have been booths (or shops) and additional chambers.
Macgibbon and Ross (1887) note that the street front was largely rebuilt and modernised (measured drawings in NMRS).
G Stell 1977.
Site occupied by modern buildings.
Visited by OS (BS), 29 March 1974.
