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26-479: Jenners was founded as "Kennington & Jenner" in 1838 by Charles Jenner FRSE (1810–1893), a linen draper, and Charles Kennington. The store has never left its site on Princes Street, but its original building was destroyed by fire in 1892. In 1893 the Scottish architect William Hamilton Beattie was appointed to design a replacement, which subsequently opened in 1895. It is now a category A listed building . Jenners

52-454: A royal charter in 1783, allowing for its expansion. Around 50 new fellows are elected each year in March. As of 2016 there are around 1,650 Fellows, including 71 Honorary Fellows and 76 Corresponding Fellows. Fellows are entitled to use the post-nominal letters FRSE, Honorary Fellows HonFRSE, and Corresponding Fellows CorrFRSE. The Fellowship is split into four broad sectors, covering

78-463: A cue from 16th-century practice, the Paris-trained designers of 19th-century Beaux-Arts architecture were encouraged to show imagination in varying corbels. A corbel table is a projecting moulded string course supported by a range of corbels. Sometimes these corbels carry a small arcade under the string course, the arches of which are pointed and trefoiled. As a rule, the corbel table carries

104-483: A wall out from the vertical, has long been used as a simple kind of vaulting , for example in many Neolithic chambered cairns , where walls are gradually corbelled in until the opening can be spanned by a slab. Corbelled vaults are very common in early architecture around the world. Different types may be called the beehive house (ancient Britain and elsewhere), the Irish clochán , the pre-Roman nuraghe of Sardinia , and

130-474: A wall support a projecting wall or parapet , has been used since Neolithic (New Stone Age) times. It is common in medieval architecture and in the Scottish baronial style as well as in the vocabulary of classical architecture , such as the modillions of a Corinthian cornice . The corbel arch and corbel vault use the technique systematically to make openings in walls and to form ceilings. These are found in

156-530: Is a notable example, with 85 of its original 91 richly carved corbels still surviving). Similarly, in the Early English period corbels were sometimes elaborately carved, as at Lincoln Cathedral , and sometimes more simply so. Corbels sometimes end with a point apparently growing into the wall, or forming a knot, and often are supported by angels and other figures. In the later periods the carved foliage and other ornaments used on corbels resemble those used in

182-518: Is especially noted for its grand saloon hall, with consoled wooden galleries rising three storeys with an elaborate strapwork timber stair, and topped with a glass and queen-post timber roof. Each winter, a large Christmas tree erected in the grand hall became a popular annual visitor attraction. In 1970s, the Jenners store was designated a category A listed building by the Royal Commission on

208-560: The 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot had led to a significant downturn in trade at the shops. [REDACTED] Media related to Jenners at Wikimedia Commons FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh ( FRSE ) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Scotland's national academy of science and letters , judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". This society received

234-525: The capitals of columns . Throughout England, in half-timber work, wooden corbels ("tassels" or "braggers") abound, carrying window-sills or oriel windows in wood, which also are often carved. The corbels carrying balconies in Italy and France were sometimes of great size and richly carved, and some of the finest examples of the Italian Cinquecento (16th century) style are found in them. Taking

260-498: The gutter , but in Lombard work the arcaded corbel table was used as a decoration to subdivide the storeys and break up the wall surface. In Italy sometimes over the corbels will form a moulding, and above a plain piece of projecting wall forming a parapet . The corbels carrying the arches of the corbel tables in Italy and France were often elaborately moulded, sometimes in two or three courses projecting over one another; those carrying

286-501: The machicolations of English and French castles had four courses. In modern chimney construction, a corbel table is constructed on the inside of a flue in the form of a concrete ring beam supported by a range of corbels. The corbels can be either in-situ or pre-cast concrete. The corbel tables described here are built at approximately ten-metre intervals to ensure stability of the barrel of refractory bricks constructed thereon. Corbelling, where rows of corbels gradually build

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312-570: The tholos tombs (or "beehive tombs") of Late Bronze Age Greece and other parts of the Mediterranean. In medieval architecture , the technique was used to support upper storeys or a parapet projecting forward from the wall plane, often to form machicolations (openings between corbels could be used to drop things onto attackers). This later became a decorative feature, without the openings. Corbelling supporting upper stories and particularly supporting projecting corner turrets subsequently became

338-737: The Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland . Jenners had two shops in 2020: The Jenners store in the Loch Lomond Shores outlet in Balloch remains in operation but as a dual Frasers and Sports Direct store, branding from Jenners practically absent. Jenners previously had stores at Edinburgh Airport and Glasgow International Airport that closed following a decision announced in April 2007. Jenners said that security measures introduced in UK airports following

364-582: The Society. Console (architecture) In architecture , a corbel is a structural piece of stone, wood or metal jutting from a wall to carry a superincumbent weight, a type of bracket . A corbel is a solid piece of material in the wall, whereas a console is a piece applied to the structure. A piece of timber projecting in the same way was called a "tassel" or a "bragger" in England. The technique of corbelling , where rows of corbels deeply keyed inside

390-553: The business to the House of Fraser , at an estimated price of £100–200 million, but a month later it was sold for £46.1 million. While other acquisitions by House of Fraser had been renamed, Jenners kept its identity. The store made national news in 2007 when it publicly announced that it would stop selling paté de foie gras , following a boycott by the Duke and Duchess of Hamilton . In 2008, House of Fraser invested £3 million in improvements to

416-478: The early architecture of most cultures, from Eurasia to Pre-Columbian architecture . A console is more specifically an S-shaped scroll bracket in the classical tradition, with the upper or inner part larger than the lower (as in the first illustration) or outer. Keystones are also often in the form of consoles. Whereas "corbel" is rarely used outside architecture, "console" is widely used for furniture , as in console table , and other decorative arts where

442-551: The full range of physical and life sciences, arts, humanities, social sciences, education, professions, industry, business and public life. Examples of current fellows include Peter Higgs and Jocelyn Bell Burnell . Previous fellows have included Melvin Calvin , Benjamin Franklin , James Clerk Maxwell , James Watt , Thomas Reid , and Andrew Lawrence . A comprehensive biographical list of Fellows from 1783–2002 has been published by

468-730: The motif appears. The word corbel comes from Old French and derives from the Latin corbellus , a diminutive of corvus (" raven "), which refers to the beak-like appearance. Similarly, the French refer to a bracket-corbel, usually a load-bearing internal feature, as a corbeau (" crow "). Norman ( Romanesque ) corbels often have a plain appearance, although they may be elaborately carved with stylised heads of humans, animals or imaginary "beasts", and sometimes with other motifs (The Church of St Mary and St David in Kilpeck, Herefordshire

494-485: The restoration of the building will take four years, and that the store was planned to reopen without the House of Fraser livery once redevelopment had completed. In June 2022, AAA United, the company owned by Anders Holch Povlsen, was granted planning permission to convert the building to a 96-room hotel. Under the plans, the three-storey central atrium would be retained, as would the Jenners signage. The hotel rooms would occupy

520-505: The store. As a result of this, in 2016 the basement toy department was rebranded under the Hamleys name, before being closed in 2019. The lease of the building remained with the Jenners holding company JPSE Ltd, owned by the Douglas Miller family. In August 2005 it was sold to Moorcroft Capital Management, owned by Jenners' former chief executive Robbie Douglas Miller . In 2017 the building

546-402: The support of the house". The new store featured many technical innovations such as electric lighting and hydraulic lifts, In 1903, the store was extended northwards towards Rose Street by Beattie's partner, Andrew Robb Scott , in a style matching Beattie's original design. A further extension was added to the west along Princes Street by Tarbolton & Ochterlony in 1955. The Jenners building

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572-510: The surprise of the owners of the building. Edinburgh City Council issued a Listed Building enforcement notice on 21 April 2021 to Sports Direct Retail, the Mike Ashley company that owns the Frasers Group , to reinstate the Jenners letters on the eastern and southern sides of the department store, as these had been removed without listed building consent. In May 2021, it was announced that

598-482: The upper floors, with new retail use, restaurants and cafés at the lower levels, and a new roof-top bar. On 23 January 2023, a fire broke out at the rear of the empty building. Five firefighters were injured, one of whom, 38-year old Barry Martin, was critically injured and died four days later. Eyewitnesses described smoke pouring out of the basement area of the department store. The present Jenners building in Edinburgh

624-557: Was bought by Danish billionaire fashion retailer and landowner in Scotland Anders Holch Povlsen , reportedly for £53 million. In late 2019 it was reported that the business was considering reducing its size or moving from Princes Street. In January 2021, it was announced that Jenners was closing and 200 jobs would be lost. The Jenners signage was removed from the Princes Street building on 14 April 2021, reportedly to

650-456: Was designed in 1893 by William Hamilton Beattie in an ornate, early Renaissance Revival style, embellished with a variety of columns , ornamental cornices and decorative balustrading . The building is situated on a slope, with six storeys and an attic level; on the south-east corner is a canted 7-storey tower. At Charles Jenner's insistence the building's facade was decorated with rows of female caryatids "to show symbolically that women are

676-474: Was run for many years by the Douglas Miller family, descendants of James Kennedy, who took charge of the store after Charles Jenner retired in 1881. Known as the " Harrods of the North", it has held a Royal Warrant since 1911, and was visited by Queen Elizabeth II on the occasion of its 150th anniversary in 1988. On 16 March 2005 it was announced that the Douglas Miller family were in advanced negotiations to sell

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