Edinburgh, 1 Roseburn Cliff, George Pape's Widows Cottages
Armorial Panel (17th Century), Cottage(S) (19th Century)
Site Name Edinburgh, 1 Roseburn Cliff, George Pape's Widows Cottages
Classification Armorial Panel (17th Century), Cottage(S) (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 1 - 3 Pape's Cottages
Canmore ID 120807
Site Number NT27SW 753
NGR NT 22963 73236
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/120807
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
Publication Account (1951)
199. Carved Stone, Roseburn Gardens.
An armorial panel has been built for preservation into the E. gablet of Pape's Cottages, Roseburn Gardens. At the top is incised the date 1676, and at the foot is carved a grotesque head from which the moustache is extended at each side as a branch flanking the shield. The shield is ensigned with a crown and is charged : Quarterly, 1st and 4th, paly of six ;2nd and 3rd, three hunting-horns ; over all, on an escutcheon of pretence, nine stars, for Forrester, that is, James, second Lord Forrester, who was murdered in 1679 in his own garden at Corstorphine Castle, by Christian Nimmo, his niece by marriage, whom he had seduced. Cf. O.E.C., iii, pp. 179 f. and The Scots Peerage, iv, p. 93.
RCAHMS 1951, visited c.1941
