Royal Circus General view of North side
SC 512111
Description Royal Circus General view of North side
Collection Records of the Scottish National Buildings Record, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 512111
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of ED 4643/15
Scope and Content Royal Circus, Edinburgh Royal Circus, designed by William Playfair in 1820 based on an original plan by Robert Reid and William Sibbald in 1801-2, was built as two sweeping crescents on opposite sides of a great circle, cut diagonally by a road running downhill to Stockbridge. The buildings on the crescents are three storeys high, with small iron balconies at first-floor level. The middle and end blocks have an extra attic storey. Royal Circus, originally named The Circus, was one of the first streets in Edinburgh to be conceived in this fashionable crescent-shape (Abercromby Place, although curved, was not thought of as a crescent), and its name emulated the Circus in Bath. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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