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Cowgate
Geikie, Walter, 1830, Pencil work
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Cowgate
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6169
Title
Cowgate
Artist / maker
Geikie, Walter
Date
1830
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15 x 17.6 cm
Type
Pencil work
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Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
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Showing the spire of Magdalen Chapel
The Magdalen Chapel is situated on the Cowgate in Edinburgh. It was built in 1544 with a bequest made by Michael MacQueen. After the death of MacQueen's wife the chapel passed to the Incorporation of Hammermen, a guild of metalworkers, who decorated the space with their work. It has the only surviving pre-Reformation stained glass in Scotland left 'in situ'. It is now the headquarters of the Scottish Reformation Society.
The Cowgate runs from its junction with St Mary's Street (formerly St Mary's Wynd) and the Pleasance to the Grassmarket. Cattle were driven along this route when entering Edinburgh from grazing land outside the city. The Cowgate Port was a gateway through the Flodden Wall situated at the street's east end.
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