Old Gateway to the Howff, Barrack Street
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Old Gateway to the Howff, Barrack Street
Image: © kim traynor Taken: 22 May 2011
Entrance to an old graveyard, named the Howff, occupying the former garden of a 13th-century Franciscan monastery. In 1564, following the Reformation, it was granted to the town as a burial ground by Queen Mary, and used as a regular meeting place (= old Scots 'howff') for the town's nine incorporated trades* until 1776. Burials ceased in 1857. Dundee's coat of arms appear above the gateway. Note the sculpted caskets above the pillars. * Weavers, Tailors, Cordiners (shoemakers), Glovers (skinners), Baxters (bakers), Fleshers (butchers), Dyers, Bonnetmakers, Hammermen (metal-workers)
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Image Location
Latitude
56.461199
Longitude
-2.973792