Architecture Notes

Event ID 766113

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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Built in 1846 by David Bryce for the Western Bank it was later occupied by Scottish Widows who subsequently replaced the building in 1962 see NT27SE 1073. This Category B building was demolished in 1960.

Sculpture on building - Sir John Steell and A Handyside Ritchie

REFERENCE

Public Library

"Annals of the Scottish Widows Fund 1815-1914" - copiled by Sir Herbert Maxwell 1914 - text & photographs

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Scottish Widows

PLANS:

Dick Peddie & MacKay, Edinburgh alts

Attic 2, Bin 22, Bag 1 Dick Peddie & Walker Todd 1927

1930

Scottish Widows Fund

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Dick Peddie & MacKay, Edinburgh alterations

Bin 22, Bag 2 Dick Peddie & Walker Todd 1934-5

Scottish Widows

PLANS:

Dick Peddie & MacKay, Edinburgh alts

Attic 2, Bin 22, Bag 1 Dick Peddie, Todd & Jamieson 1940