Dunfermline, Cross Wynd

Seventeenth-Century Tenement, Cross Wynd, Dunfermline.

A tenement dating from the late 17th century stands at the head of the Cross Wynd on the western side. It is a plain, harled structure comprising a "laich" floor and two upper storeys. The gables are crowstepped. On the side facing the Wynd is a panel within an enriched border. This contains a shield bearing: A tree eradicated, lying fesswise, between three pheons for Dalgleish, accompanied by the initials M.R.D. and the quotation from Psalm cxxvii, NISI DOMINVS FRVSTRA. Above and below the shield are Latin inscriptions, for the most part illegible. At the back of the house a dormer pediment from elsewhere has been inserted. It bears a cartouche charged with what is probably intended for the Dalgleish arms as above. The cartouche has been flanked by initials. That on the dexter side has been erased, but that on the sinister side is D., for Dalgleish. Another pediment has been inserted in the wall of the property adjoining. It contains a cartouche bearing: A saltire engrailed between four roses (?), for Macfarlane (?) and is flanked by the initials I.M.

RCAHMS 1933, visited 8 April 1929.