Architecture Notes

Event ID 840768

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NT27SE 35.01 26940 73964

REFERENCE: PLANS

Dick Peddie & MacKay, Edinburgh student drawings

Attic 2, Bin 35, Bag 3 J R MacKay

HOLYROOD ABBEY DRAWINGS

NMRS Photographic Survey of drawings for Holyrood Abbey in the collection of Ancient Monuments branch, SDD and transferred to the Scottish Record Office including: survey drawings by James Gillespie Graham 1832; designs for restoration and additions by James Gillespie Graham and A W N Pugin 1837 and a set of working drawings for the restoration by James Gillespie Graham 1837.

Copied 1979 Inventory 116

REFERENCE: NMRS LIBRARY

Scottish Country Life, June 1929, page 194 -photograph

NMRS Print Room

Inglis Photograph Collection, Acc No 1994/90

Chapel Royal in 1660, 2 views (as in Vitruvious Scoticus)

2 views of the ruined interior (5 prints, incl. AI 52)

2 different details of sculpture and 1 of slab tombs

engraving 'ruins of the chapel of Holyroodhouse'

REFERENCE: SCOTTISH RECORD OFFICE

Peal of bells for the Church of Holyroodhouse. Royal letter to the Earl of Mar, Treasurer, about the use of two broken cannock to make a peal of bells.

1629 GD/124/10/352

Restoration of the Chapel of Holyrood Palace. Letter to the Marquis of Breadalbane from James Gillespie Graham, architect. He asks that the matter of Restoration be drawn to the Queen's attention.

1842 GD/112/20/5