Edinburgh, 240 Canongate, Chessel's Court, General
General View
Site Name Edinburgh, 240 Canongate, Chessel's Court, General
Classification General View
Alternative Name(s) 234, 238 - 244 Canongate; Chessel's Buildings; Perry's Close; Pirrie's Close; Chessel Court Redevelopment
Canmore ID 52363
Site Number NT27SE 334
NGR NT 26243 73674
NGR Description Centred NT 26246 73674
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/52363
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
NT27SE 334.00 26246 736474
NT27SE 334.01 2625 7363 Chessel's Court, St Saviour's Child Garden
NT27SE 334.02 26251 73647 3, 4, 5, 6 Chessel's Court, South Block
See also
NT27SE 335 26217 73670 1 Chessel's Court, West Block
NT27SE 5485 26222 73657 2 Chessel's Court, West Block
NT27SE 338 26225 73699 238-244 Canongate, Chessel's Court, Front Block
Publication Account (1997)
The culmination of a distinguished series of Royal Mile slum redevelopment/improvement schemes by Hurd. lanned and executed in three stages, the project contains a mixture of preserved tenement blocks and new infill, with a front range to the Canongate and rear wings framing Chessel's Buildings (a tenement block of c.1745) at the rear. It is unified by coloured harling and self-consciously Traditionalist features, such as arcasing, in a simplified Lorimerian style. This formula, which developes 'conservsative surgery' ideas first enunicated by Sydney Mitchell and Patrick Geddes at the turn of the century, was paralelled in the contemporary reconstruction of bombed German historic cities, such as Münster and Nüremberg. (Fig. 4.17).
Information from 'Rebuilding Scotland: The Post-War Vision, 1945-75', (1997).