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Edinburgh, Portobello, 46 Figgate Lane, The Tower
Architectural Fragment(S) (Medieval) - (17th Century), Tower (18th Century) - (19th Century)
Site Name Edinburgh, Portobello, 46 Figgate Lane, The Tower
Classification Architectural Fragment(S) (Medieval) - (17th Century), Tower (18th Century) - (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Beach Lane; Promenade; 47 Figgate Lane
Canmore ID 145560
Site Number NT37SW 245
NGR NT 30617 74166
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/145560
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
Description
Site recorded by GUARD during the Coastal Assessment Survey for Historic Scotland, 'The Firth of Forth from Dunbar to the Coast of Fife' 23rd February 1996.
NT37SW 245 30600 74176
REFERENCE:
Edinburgh Evening Courant 1820 Feb 12
Sale of the Tower & associated plots of land. 8 rooms.
Field Visit (16 March 1928)
Architectural Details, etc., The Tower, Portobello.
The tower, which stands at the shore end of Ramsay Lane, is a late building of brick and rubble. In the external masonry are incorporated sundry details of moulded work removed from houses in Edinburgh. There are moulded jambs from eight 16th-century fireplaces; the head of a Gothic aumbry of the early 16th century; a door lintel, dated 1674, and inscribed PAX INTRANTIBVS SALVS EXEVNTIBVS (‘Peace to those, who enter, health to those who leave’); a 16th-century skew-put, surmounted by a headless figure and bearing a shield with a merchant’s mark; a panel containing a shield charged with a tree eradicated between two nude figures; a 17th-century pediment; a stone bearing a merchant's mark; moulded and carved lintels, jambs and architraves.
In the tower the chamber on the third floor has a stone fireplace of 16th-17th century workmanship, and in the ceiling are inset four picture panels, painted in oil on pine boards; two panels represent architectural and garden subjects, another shows Christ washing the feet of the disciples, while the fourth depicts Pilate washing his hands. One panel is dated 1625.The paintings suggest Italian workmanship.
RCAHMS 1929, visited 16 March 1928
