Architecture Notes

Event ID 781929

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NT27SE 330 26364 73770

Shoemakers' or Bible Land. Large five-storeyed tenement with two gables facing the street and closely-spaced windows. Turnpike stair near centre of the front ends and an ogee roof.

See also Edinburgh, Canongate, Shoemaker's Land.

Insignia of the shoemakers carved on the first floor level.

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

City Architect's Collection

Photostat of drawing of Bible, Morocco and Shoemaker's Lands as in 1677 by A A MacCulloch 1943