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Architecture Notes
Event ID 771149
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/771149
ARCHITECT: W H Playfair, 1832.
Built 1829-32, architect W H Playfair; altered and added to by A F Balfour Paul, 1908-9 when a pediment dated 1697 from the Old Surgeons' Hall was inserted.
RCAHMS 1951; J Gifford, C McWilliam and D Walker 1984.
EXTERNAL REFERENCE
National Records of Scotland:
Memorial of the President and Fellows to the Treasury, seeking a grant towards the cost of erecting a new hall and apartments to receive a museum of Morbid Anatomy.
1825
GD51/5/708/1-2
