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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
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.
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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