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