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Edinburgh, Joppa, Milton Road East, Easter Duddingston Lodge
Hotel (Period Unknown), House (19th Century), Outbuilding (19th Century)
Site Name Edinburgh, Joppa, Milton Road East, Easter Duddingston Lodge
Classification Hotel (Period Unknown), House (19th Century), Outbuilding (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Milton Road East Lodge House; Queen's Bay Hotel; Queen's Bay Lodge; Eventide Home; 47, 49, 51, 53 Milton Road East
Canmore ID 202284
Site Number NT37SW 620
NGR NT 31605 72985
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/202284
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
NT37SW 620.00 31605 72985
NT37SW 620.01 31520 72965 Milton Road East Lodge
Project (1997)
The Public Monuments and Sculpture Association (http://www.pmsa.org.uk/) set up a National Recording Project in 1997 with the aim of making a survey of public monuments and sculpture in Britain ranging from medieval monuments to the most contemporary works. Information from the Edinburgh project was added to the RCAHMS database in October 2010 and again in 2012.
The PMSA (Public Monuments and Sculpture Association) Edinburgh Sculpture Project has been supported by Eastern Photocolour, Edinburgh College of Art, the Edinburgh World Heritage Trust, Historic Scotland, the Hope Scott Trust, The Old Edinburgh Club, the Pilgrim Trust, the RCAHMS, and the Scottish Archive Network.
Field Visit (7 March 2000)
Wrought iron railings set in stone wall. The main design is sets of rose type patterns in each of which is a ladder. The railings are topped by thistles.
In 1890 Charles Jenner, of Jenner's department store in Princes Street, Edinburgh, built the house known as Queen's Bay Lodge in Milton Road East. (The house is now a Church of Scotland Eventide Home.) The principal feature is the design of the enclosing railings. The main motif of a ladder framed by ornamental ironwork is repeated throughout the design. The railings are an exact copy of those surrounding the tombs of the House of Scaliger, rulers of Verona in the 14th century. Their name comes from the Italian word scala, meaning ladder, hence the ladder motif.
Inscriptions : On plaque under railings:
THE SCALIGER RAILING "VERONA" 1380. THIS EXACT COPY WAS MADE AT PORTOBELLO, MIDLOTHIAN, 1890, BY JAMES ROSS, BLACKSMITH, ALONG WITH DAVID GREIG, HIS ASSISTANT, IN THIS WORK
Signatures : None
Design period : 1890
Year of unveiling : 1890
Information from Public Monuments and Sculpture Association (PMSA Work Ref : EDIN0334)
