Edinburgh Castle, Vaults Edinburgh, Scotland

Listed Building Data

Edinburgh Castle, Vaults has been designated a scheduled monument in Scotland with the following information. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.

Historic Scotland ID
395634 (entity ID)
Building ID
48232
Canmore ID
111735
Category
A
Name
Edinburgh Castle, Vaults
Parish
Edinburgh
County
Edinburgh, City Of
Easting
325145
Northing
673449
Date Listed
14 December 1970
Source
Historic Environment Scotland Portal: LB48232 official listing
More Info
Canmore: 111735 map, documents, images, activities, notes, etc.

Listed Building Description

Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.

15th century. Series of rubble-built vaulted undercrofts. Random rubble outer wall with barred windows.

Listed Building Statement of Special Interest

Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.

The A Group comprises Batteries, Foog's Gate, Gatehouse, Governor's House, Great Hall, Lang Stairs, Military Prison, National War Museum, New Barracks, Old Guardhouse, Palace Block, Portcullis Gate, St Margaret's Chapel, Scottish National War Memorial, Telephone Kiosks, United Services Museum and Vaults, all within Edinburgh Castle, and in the Care of Historic Scotland. Built onto the rock to provide a level surface for the construction of Crown Square and the surrounding buildings above, the Great Hall, the Palace and the block to SW known as the Queen Anne building (now the United Services Museum). Used at various times as stores, arsenal, bake-house, civil and military prisons and barracks.

Listed Building References

Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.

Grant OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH (1885) ill p21. RCAHMS INVENTORY, EDINBURGH (1951) pp1-25, plan fig 93, p19. MacIvor EDINBURGH CASTLE (1993) p47. https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/edinburgh-castle