Edinburgh, Craigiehall House, Lennie, Craigiehall Temple
Garden Temple (18th Century)
Site Name Edinburgh, Craigiehall House, Lennie, Craigiehall Temple
Classification Garden Temple (18th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Cammo Road, Belvedere
Canmore ID 209324
Site Number NT17SE 264
NGR NT 17025 74912
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/209324
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
NT17SE 264 17025 74908
NT17NE 29.00 16671 75424 Craigiehall House (and related sites)
The remains of The Temple are situated about 177m NE of Lennie Gate and 323m SSW of The Grotto Bridge. Orginally comprising two storeys, the lower part is all that remains today due to the Civil Aviation Authority judging the building to be a hazard to aircraft. The lower storey retains a detail of the Coat of Arms of William 2nd Earl of Annandale and his wife Sophia Countess of Annandale above an pillared entrance portico. The coat of arms may have originally formed part of the enttrance to the Walled Garden (NT17NE 169). (Innes 1982)
The Temple now stands next to a modern bungalow.
Field Visit (6 August 1926)
Cist Cover from Craigie Hill.
This cover stone, which formed the protecting slab of a cist [NT17NE 13] discovered as long ago as 1826 at Craigie Hill, Dalmeny, in West Lothian, is now to be seen with two other slabs, no doubt also taken from the cist, lying against the wall of a round building known as the Temple [NT17SE 264], situated in Cramond parish, Midlothian, about ¾ of a mile to the south-west of Cramond Old Bridge. It is remarkable through bearing a series of concentric cut rings, some oval in form, on the face which formed the under side of the cist cover. The sculptured slab forms the back of a crude garden seat, and is now set with the ring designs partly exposed. These designs are still fairly distinct, but the slab is deserving of more careful preservation than is at present afforded. Some of the rings are incomplete, but this is explained by the fact that pieces of the cover stone were broken off at the time of the discovery. Only in one instance is there a central cup. The stone has previously been described and figured in Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., vi, (1864-6) App., p. 28, and xxxiii, (1898-9) pp. 371-2. It is of irregular form, and measures 3 feet 11 inches at widest, 3 feet in greatest height, and on an average 6 ½ inches thick. An urn is said to have been found in the cist.
RCAHMS 1929, visited 6 August 1926.
OS Map: ii N.E. (unnoted).
Measured Survey (1948)
Measured drawings by Stanislaw Tyrowicz for the National Buildings Record Scottish Council in 1948.
Photographic Survey (May 1949)
Photographic survey by the National Buildings Record Scottish Council in 1949.
Photographic Survey (May 1965)
Photographic survey by the Scottish National Buildings Record/Ministry of Work in May 1965.
