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Watch Tower, Burial Ground, St Cuthbert's Church, Lothian Road, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.949 / 55°56'56"N

Longitude: -3.2064 / 3°12'22"W

OS Eastings: 324760

OS Northings: 673546

OS Grid: NT247735

Mapcode National: GBR 8LG.0X

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.QQCR

Plus Code: 9C7RWQXV+JF

Entry Name: Watch Tower, Burial Ground, St Cuthbert's Church, Lothian Road, Edinburgh

Listing Name: King's Stables Road and Lothian Road, St Cuthbert's Churchyard, Watch Tower

Listing Date: 14 December 1970

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 364479

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27346

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, Lothian Road, St Cuthbert's Church, Burial Ground, Watch Tower

ID on this website: 200364479

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Watchtower Watch house

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Description

Dated 1827, restored 1990. 2-stage circular tower (single stage visible from King's Stables Road). Cream ashlar. Roll-moulded cill course at 1st floor; moulded eaves course; crenellated parapet. Timber panelled door with fanlight in cavetto-moulded round-arched surround in lower stage (to churchyard). Windows (some blind) in cavetto-moulded surrounds. Small-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows.

Statement of Interest

Within 10 years of St Cuthbert's watch tower being built a change in the law governing the donation of bodies to medical science made the building redundant. Restored by Robert Hurd and Partners, 1990.

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