Architecture Notes

Event ID 762755

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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See also EDINBURGH, High Street, City Chambers for photographs.

ARCHITECTS: David Bryce (Submitted design for restoration of Mercat Cross, Edinburgh)-not carried out

David Cousin (Submitted design for restoration of Mercat Cross, Edinburgh)-not carried out

Sydney Mitchell & Wilson-restoration

REFERENCE: EDINBURGH PUBLIC LIBRARY

"Drum of the Somervilles" 1928 by Hamilton Moir Nisbet, for the position of the Cross at Drum

REFERENCE: NATIONAL LIBRARY

Robert Louis Stevenson's "Edinburgh"-a sketch entitled "A Royal Proclamation"

"History of the Mercat Cross of Edinburgh" by Thomas Arnold, 1885- "Prospect of ye Mercat Crosse of Edinburgh 1750" and a reduced copy of the Architect's drawing of "The Market Cross as restored in 1885".