Edinburgh, 32 Cockburn Street
Shop (Period Unknown), Tenement (19th Century)
Site Name Edinburgh, 32 Cockburn Street
Classification Shop (Period Unknown), Tenement (19th Century)
Canmore ID 113590
Site Number NT27SE 908
NGR NT 25820 73687
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/113590
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
Publication Account (1951)
24. Anchor Close, 243 High Street.
On the E. side of the Close there are two 17th-century buildings, originally of four storeys and now used as a workshop and store. There is nothing characteristic about either.
A modern doorway on the W. side of the Close has a fine 17th-century lintel with a thistle-slip at one end and the inscription LORD BE MERCIFVL TO ME. Until 1932 there was a stone above the N. end of the entrance passage bearing, at the top, a shield with the date 1669, and below these an assemblage which the Lord Lyon could not accept as heraldic. It comprised a cross cantoned with two cinquefoils in chief and two pelicans in piety in base. Sir Daniel Wilson, who saw the stone before 1848, misread the date and did not notice the cinquefoils (1). The stone is now in Lady Stair's House.
RCAHMS 1951
(1) Memorials, ii, p. 19.
