Dunfermline, Cross Wynd
Tenement (17th Century)
Site Name Dunfermline, Cross Wynd
Classification Tenement (17th Century)
Canmore ID 49425
Site Number NT08NE 96
NGR NT 09098 87511
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/49425
- Council Fife
- Parish Dunfermline
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Dunfermline
- Former County Fife
Field Visit (8 April 1929)
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.