Architecture Notes

Event ID 766207

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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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.