Cordiner's Hall near the College

Category

Library Item

Item no

1034

Title

Cordiner's Hall near the College

Description

A man leads a horse and cart past Cordiner's Hall, Potterrow Port, Edinburgh. Other people enter the building from the street through a stone-carved, ornamental doorway. Next door, at the tobacconist's shop men are talking.

Artist / maker

Skene, James

Date

1820

Size

15 x 17 cm.

Type

Watercolour

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Cordiner's Hall, Potterrow Port near Old College, Edinburgh. Built by the Incorporation of Cordiners (Shoemakers) as a convening house (pre 1753), the building was pulled down in 1820. In 1753 St.David's Masonic Lodge started to meet in this building and it is here that Sir Walter Scott became a mason. St.David's stopped using the building in 1757.

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Government > Local > Guild halls

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

Transport > Land > Horse and carts

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