High School Wynd

Category

Library Item

Item no

1027

Title

High School Wynd

Description

A street scene in High School Wynd, Edinburgh. People are walking along the road beneath overhanging buildings supported by pillars. Chimneys are smoking and a church spire is visible in the background.

Artist / maker

Skene, James

Date

1833

Size

23 x 19 cm.

Type

Watercolour

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Painted 27 June 1833.

High School Wynd is a short street linking Infirmary Street with the Cowgate. Edinburgh High School was built on what is now called Infirmary Street in 1578. The School moved to Regent Road in 1829, and stayed in those grand premises until moving to Barnton in 1969.

The Tron Kirk was completed in 1647. It was designed by John Mylne. It takes its name from the public weighing machine that stood in a nearby street in the seventeenth century. Visitors to the Kirk can now view the remains of a sixteenth-century street discovered below the building in 1974. Since 1952 the building has been owned by City of Edinburgh Council and is currently used as a visitor centre.

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