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Architecture Notes
Event ID 766207
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/766207
Architect: Archibald Elliot 1815, also James Gillespie Graham & Richard Chrichton furniched plans January 1815
NMRS Print Room
Regent Bridge
2 prints - the North side seen from Calton Road
W Schomberg Scott Photograph Collection
Acc No 1997/39
REFERENCE
SRO
In a letter to Lord melville, Sir John Marjoribanks suggests that they should visit the bridge and while there he would wish "to show its lions" to him.
1819
GD/51/5/97
"Plan - to carry on the line of Princes Street to connect it with The Calton Hilll by a bridge, to erect the new prison, near to Bridewell and to ocntinue the line of road till it joines The Musselburgh Turnpike Road" Estimate ?60,000
"Also desirable to include the unfinished end of York Place in The Act of Parlt... The road through York Place being a great thoroughfare to Leith"
1814
GD/69/30
PUBLIC LIBRARY
Somerville's Sketches of Old Buildings etc - 2 original pencil sketches 1818
(Undated) information in NMRS.
