OS1/11/105/77 | ScotlandsPlaces

List of names as written	Various modes of spelling	Authorities for spelling	Situation	Description remarks
MARKET CROSS (Site of) [High Street]	Site of Market Cross Site of Market Cross Site of Market Cross Site of Market Cross	Mr Laing signet Library Chambers Reekiana Mc Dowalls Guide Maitlands Hist. [History]		[Situation] In High Street a little East of St Giles's Church. The site of this object is marKed in the pavement by a radiation and circle made with the paving stones or by an arrangement of the paving stones. This object was a building of an octagonal Shape of Sixteen feet diametre and about fifteen feet high besides the pillar which arose from the centre. At each angle there was an Ionic pillar from the top of which a species of Gothic bastion projected and between the columns there were modern arches. Upon the top of the arch fronting the Netherbow, the towns arms were cut, over the other arches were several figures of heads. the entry to this building was by a door fronting the Netherbow which gave access to a stair in the inside leading to a platform on the top of the building. From the platform rose a column consisting of one stone upwards of 20 feet high and of 18 inches diametre spangled with thistles and adorned with a corinthian capital upon the top of which was a unicorn, Chambers says that, The origin of this cross cannot be assigned to a later period than the early part of the fifteenth century when the city first became the regular seat [continued on page 78]

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Parish of The City of Edinburgh

This Name Book refers to Edinburgh 1852 - Sheet 35
OS large scale Scottish town plans, 1847-1895 - Scale: 1:1056

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