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Architecture Notes
Event ID 766938
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/766938
NT27SE 367 25836 74048
See also NT27SE 498 New Register House
Architect: Robert Baldwin 1762 - designs for New Register House Office on grounds of Heriots Hospital
William C Evans - design for raising an enlarged dome over the centre circular portion
From Architecture Catalogue Slip;
The original Register House was built partly in 1774-76, partly in 1822-26 after designs by Robert Adam, in the Italian Style, and cost about 80,000 [pounds]. The wall dividing the street from the building, stood originally 40 foot from the facade but was moved back first in 1850 and again in 1891 when the stair cases were also altered. The front is 200 foot long and consists of a basement and two upper floors and is ornamented from end to end with a Corinthian entablature.
NMRS Print Room
General Register House
Oblique view of part of the front
W Schomberg Scott Photograph Collection
Acc No 1997/39
REFERENCE - Scottish Record Office
Letter to Baron Mure (Baron of Exchequer) from 14th Earl of Morton regarding voluntary appropriation to the Records of 3,000 [pounds] to be used for preliminary work in the building of a Record Office. Secrecy about the area chosen is urged because of attitude of the Excise.
1763 GD1/70/1
REFERENCE - Scottish Record Office
[James] Salisbury, architect, was brought from London [c. 1774] to superintend the building of Register House.
Noted in a letter from Alexander Farquharson to Charles Gordon.
1783 GD 44/Sec 49/Bundle 16
Taken from Architecture Catalgue Slip;
Public Library J. G. Tunny's "Photos of Edin" 1855 Nos 4 & 5 - 2 illustrations
Public Library Accession G72284 - 1 photograph c 1881.
