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Edinburgh, 143 Grange Loan, Astley Ainslie Hospital, General
Architectural Fragment(S) (15th Century), Gravestone (17th Century), Hospital (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Edinburgh, 143 Grange Loan, Astley Ainslie Hospital, General
Classification Architectural Fragment(S) (15th Century), Gravestone (17th Century), Hospital (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Canaan Lane
Canmore ID 125594
Site Number NT27SE 2071
NGR NT 25246 71315
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/125594
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- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
NT27SE 2071 25246 71315
REFERENCE : Proposed Medical Superintendents House
Plans: Dick Peddie & MacKay, Edinburgh new
Attic 2, Bin 33, Bag 3 13 Young Street 1930
REFERENCE : Plans:
Dick Peddie & MacKay, Edinburgh Additions and alterations
Dick Peddie & Walker Todd
1931-35
REFERENCE : Plans:
Dick Peddie & MacKay, Edinburgh Additions
Bin 6, Bag 1 James A Arnott 1938
REFERENCE : Plans:
Dick Peddie & MacKay, Edinburgh Alterations
Dick Peddie & Walker Todd
1929
REFERENCE : Pavilion and Nurses home
Plans:
Dick Peddie & MacKay, Edinburgh New
Bin 9, Bag 3 Dick Peddie & Walker Todd
1924
NT27SE 2071 2525 7132 Astley Ainslie Hospital, General
NT27SE 147 2518 7139 Astley Ainslie Hospital, Canaan House
NT27SE 2039 2528 7136 Astley Ainslie Hospital, Canaan Park
NT27SE 2040 2504 7126 Astley Ainslie Hospital, Canaan Lane, Gate Lodges
NT27SE 2044 2513 7153 Astley Ainslie Hospital, Gate Piers and Gates
NT27SE 2070 2511 7140 Astley Ainslie Hospital, Millbank Pavilion
NT27SE 2072 2539 7139 Astley Ainslie Hospital, St Roque
NT27SE 2203 2513 7153 Astley Ainslie Hospital, Sentry Pavilions
NT27SE 4547 2547 7153 Astley Ainslie Hospital, East Entrance and Lodge
NT27SE 4548 2534 7144 Astley Ainslie Hospital, School
NT27SE 4549 2531 7119 Astley Ainslie Hospital, OTTC Huts
NT27SE 4550 2507 7120 Astley Ainslie Hospital, New Store
NT27SE 4551 2512 7111 Astley Ainslie Hospital, Proposed Joiner's House
NT27SW 3426 2474 7166 Astley Ainslie Hospital, 12 Church Hill
Publication Account (1951)
204. Carved Stone, Ashfield, Chamberlain Road.
In the front garden of this villa is a 17th century burial-enclosure, the burial place of John Livingstone and his wife Elizabeth Rig, who purchased these lands of Greenhill in 1636 (1). The entrance has an edge-roll moulding and is surmounted by a curvilinear broken pediment, on one side of which appear the initials I L and E R, above the incised date 1645, and on the other a shield, flanked by the initials I L and charged: Three cinquefoils, two and one. John Livingstone's tombstone is built into the W. wall of the enclosure. At the top is incised a skull with cross-bones, surmounted by a winged hour-glass with the motto MORS PATET HORA LATET on a label over all. In the centre of the stone is a shield flanked by the initials I L and charged as above. The inscription runs below:
THIS SAINT WHOS CORPS LYES BU/RIED HEIR
LET ALL POSTERITIE ADMEIR
FOR VPRIGHT LIF IN GODLY FEIR
WHEN IUDGMENTS DID THIS LAND / SURROUND
HE WITH GOD WAS WALKING FOUND
FOR WHICH FROM MIDST OF FERS / HE'S CROUND
HEIR TO BE INTERRD BOTH HE
AND FRIENDS BY PROVIDENC AGRIE
NO AGE SHAL LOS HIS MEMORIE
HIS AGE 53 DIED / 1645.
The four corners of the stone are enriched with scrolls. It is sometimes said that Livingstone was Chamberlain of the town and that Chamberlain Road was so named in consequence. This cannot be the case, however, seeing that the first Chamberlain, Thomas Fisher, was only appointed in 1700.
RCAHMS 1951, visited c.1941
(1) O.E.C., iii, pp. 198-200.
