Edinburgh, High Street, Warriston's Close
Lintel (17th Century), Steps (19th Century)
Site Name Edinburgh, High Street, Warriston's Close
Classification Lintel (17th Century), Steps (19th Century)
Canmore ID 52308
Site Number NT27SE 286
NGR NT 25727 73676
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/52308
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
NT27SE 286 257 736
A modern doorway on the W side of Warriston's Close incorporates a 17th-century lintel inscribed DEI GRATIA THOMAS T...., accompanied by heraldic shields. A second lintel from the Close is in Huntly House Museum. It is inscribed with initials M T C and H H for Master (afterwards Sir) Thomas Craig and Helen Heriot followed by the inscription (NA)MQVE ERIT ILLE MIHI SEMPER DEVS 1583, with a shield. RCAHMS 1951.
Publication Account (1951)
66. Carved Stone, Warriston's Close,* 249 High Street.
A modern doorway giving entrance to the printing works of Messrs. W. and R. Chambers, Limited, on the W. side of the close, incorporates a 17th-century lintel inscribed GRATIA DEI THOMAST. . .. Below the inscription, at either end of the lintel, is a shield and in the centre a device, resembling a ring and fleur-de-lys and probably a merchant's mark, within a panel flanked by the initials T T, evidently for Thomas Trotter. The dexter shield is charged: A chevron between three boars' (?) heads erased, for Trotter; the sinister one: A chevron between three fleur-de-lys, for Brown. Another carved stone from Warriston's Close is described under No. 104.
RCAHMS 1951
*Formerly known as Bruce’s Close.
