Teviot Row, Bristo Street

Category

Library Item

Item no

693

Title

Teviot Row, Bristo Street

Description

A tall stone wall surrounds an institution, a correction house, with many buildings. The roofs of buildings rise above the tops of the walls and smoke rises from the chimneys. There is a small door built into the wall with a lamp above it. Further along the street people gather around a well. Horse-drawn vehicles and pedestrians make their way along the street.

Artist / maker

Skene, James

Date

1827

Size

15 x 31 cm.

Type

Watercolour

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Annotated with "Tiviot Row.- Correction House.- Bethlem. - Town Wall.- Bristo Port".
This refers to the Correction House (for disorderly females) and the Bethlem (mental hospital).

Teviot Row changed its name to the current Teviot Place when the row of houses along its southern side were demolished to make way for the Edinburgh University's Medical School. The street stood just outside the city's Telfer Wall, an extension of the Flodden Wall. Bristo Port, an entrance to the city, was located a short distance from Teviot Row at the end of what is now called Bristo Place. The name is still held by the nearby Student Union, Teviot Row House.

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