John Knox House
Location | Scottish Storytelling Centre, High St, Edinburgh EH1 1SR, United Kingdom |
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Type | Historic house |
Website | https://www.scottishstorytellingcentre.com/john-knox-house/ |
John Knox House, popularly known as John Knox's House, is a historic house in
History
The house itself was built from 1490 onwards, featuring a fine wooden gallery and
In 1567
When the Castle surrendered in August 1573, Mosman was charged with counterfeiting, for which he was hanged, quartered and beheaded. The house was forfeit for the treachery, and was given in the name of
The carvings were discovered behind woodwork in 1849,[6] and restored in 1850 by Alexander Handyside Ritchie.[7] The building was restored again in 1984.
Over the next few centuries many decorations and paintings were added, and the house and its contents are now a museum. The building is owned by the Church of Scotland and is now administered as part of the new, adjacent Scottish Storytelling Centre.
Association with John Knox
The visitor's pamphlet states that the house "was Knox's home only for a few months during the siege of Edinburgh Castle, but it is believed that he died here."
The building immediately adjacent on the west side of the house is Moubray House. Its owner Robert Moubray also happened to be the owner of the house in Warriston's Close where Knox lodged in the 1560s.[12]
See also
Notes
- ^ "John Knox House". Edinburgh World Heritage. Archived from the original on 4 March 2018. Retrieved 12 November 2015.
- ^ James Balfour Paul, Accounts of the Treasurer, vol. 7 (Edinburgh, 1907), p. 278.
- ^ William Boyd, Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 4 (Edinburgh, 1905), p. 616.
- ^ Bruce Lenman, 'Jacobean Goldsmith-Jewellers as Credit-Creators: The Cases of James Mossman, James Cockie and George Heriot', Scottish Historical Review, 74:198 (1995), pp. 159-177.
- ^ Thomson, Thomas, ed., Historie and Life of James Sext (Bannatyne Club, 1825), p. 145: Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, vol. 4
- ^ Robert Miller, John Knox and the Town Council of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, 1898), p. 136.
- ^ Buildings of Scotland: Edinburgh by Gifford, Mcwilliam and Walker
- ^ "John Knox House at the Scottish Storytelling Centre" (visitor's information pamphlet.)
- ^ Miller, Robert, 'Where did John Knox live in Edinburgh?', in Proceedings Society Antiquaries Scotland, vol.33 (1899) p.101
- ^ The term appears on the 1852 Ordnance Survey map
- ISBN 0 901824 62 3
- ^ Edinburgh City Old Accounts, vol.1 (1899), 477: Miller, Robert, John Knox and the Town Council of Edinburgh, (1898), pp.77-9
References
- Chambers, Robert and William Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, volume VIII nos. 183-200 July-December (1847), 231. Description of John Knox House in 1847.
- Guthrie, Charles John, John Knox and John Knox's House, Constable (1905).
- Guthrie, Charles John, 'Traditional Belief in John Knox's House Vindicated', in Proceedings Society Antiquaries Scotland, vol.34 (1899), 249-273, (conclusions not now accepted)
- Smith, Donald, John Knox House, Gateway to Edinburgh's Old Town, John Donald (1996) ISBN 0-85976-437-0
- Miller, Robert, John Knox and the Town Council of Edinburgh, Andrew Elliot (1898)
- Miller, Robert, 'Where did John Knox live in Edinburgh?', in Proceedings Society Antiquaries Scotland, vol.33 (1899) 80-115, (general conclusions widely accepted)
External links
- Scottish Storytelling Centre Archived 27 July 2005 at the Wayback Machine