Architecture Notes

Event ID 690791

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/690791

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REFERENCE

SCOTTISH RECORD OFFICE

1802-3

St Andrews Castle. Letters and papers concerning repairs undertaken by Principal James Playfair (7 items), including:

1. Estimate by Robert Coldstream for repairing 'the breaches in the front', 11 sept. 1802.

2-3. Letter from Playfair enclosing petition for approval of estimate, 14 Sept. 1802.

7. Letter from Playfair announcing completion of work; he has been 'sufficiently economical insomuch that the mason reckons it is a sorry job', 16 April 1803.

8. Letter from Playfair mentioning that he has 'prevailed on a young gentleman to undertake a description of our venerable remains, which I hope will soon be submitted to the publick', 20 Sept. 1803.

SRO/E342/28

1833-7

St Andrews. Papers relating to work at castle, cathedral, priory and parish church (5 items), including:

2. Memorandum concerning imprest for repairs to priory in December 1809, 30 Nov. 1833.

3. Account of Sir Henry Jardine of sums imprested to him for repairs on [parish] church, castle and cathedral, 1802-5, 1833.

4. Letter from clerk to heritors, requesting payment of crown's proportion of expenditure on repairs to parish church, 12 May 1837.

SRO/E342/41