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Architecture Notes
Event ID 762755
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/762755
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".
