Stockbridge Market

This guide to Stockbridge Market in Edinburgh starts at a stone archway on Saint Stephen Place, still carved with a promise of butchers and fishmongers that no longer exists behind it. It follows the young architect Archibald Scott, commissioned in 1825 to build Stockbridge's first covered market, and the ventilation problem that dogged it from the start. Look closely at the two fluted Doric columns holding up that old promise.