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Latitude: 55.9478 / 55°56'52"N
Longitude: -3.1946 / 3°11'40"W
OS Eastings: 325491
OS Northings: 673400
OS Grid: NT254734
Mapcode National: GBR 8NH.DC
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.WRXP
Plus Code: 9C7RWRX4+45
Entry Name: Railings And Gate, Boundary Wall, Covenanters' Memorial, Grassmarket, Edinburgh
Listing Name: Grassmarket, Covenanters' Memorial, with Boundary Wall, Railings and Gate
Listing Date: 29 March 2001
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 395256
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB47867
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200395256
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
1937 and 1953-4. Roughly-hewn raised cylinder with inset granite circle and Saltire cross, surrounded by bronze circular inscription, 1937. Squared and snecked hammered sandstone coped boundary wall with coped piers; cast-iron railings and gates with Saltire crosses and thistles. (City Engineer, 1953-4).
The long rectangle of Grassmarket was already a suburb and a secondary market place by 1500. After the Battle of Flodden in 1513 the city walls were strengthened and the Grassmarket and Cowgate enclosed by the Flodden Wall. Agricultural produce was sold in the Grassmarket until well into the 20th century; old photographs show upended carts and the bars and hostels associated with the market. It was also a place of public execution. The Memorial marks the place where many of the 'Martyrs' of the Covenanting cause were executed during the Wars of Religion (1661-68). The Memorial was first opened 25th April 1937, and re-opened by the Duke of Hamilton on 24th October 1954.
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