Edinburgh, West Parliament Square, Signet Library
Library (19th Century)
Site Name Edinburgh, West Parliament Square, Signet Library
Classification Library (19th Century)
Canmore ID 113058
Site Number NT27SE 724
NGR NT 25687 73542
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/113058
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
NT27SE 274 25687 73542
ARCHITECT: Robert Reid 1825
W H Playfair 1818-40 (Staircase, Library, Reading Room and Eastern Apartments)
William Stark 1813 (IGL)-Thomas Stothand painting of Apollo and the Muses, etc 1822
Robert Adam 1791 -design for library (not carried out)
William Burn 1834 -replaced staircase
REFERENCE: NMRS LIBRARY
Country life Aug 1st 1925 - photograph
NMRS REFERENCE:
Signet Library & Midlothian Country Buildings
PLANS:
Dick Peddie & MacKay, Edinburgh additions & alterations
Bin 17, Bag 1 7 South Charlotte St 1900
PLANS:
Dick Peddie & MacKay, Edinburgh additions & alterations
Bin 17, Bag 1 13 Young St 1901
Measured Survey (1948)
Drawings by Stanislaw Tyrowicz for the National Buildings Record Scottish Council 1948.
Project (1997)
The Public Monuments and Sculpture Association (http://www.pmsa.org.uk/) set up a National Recording Project in 1997 with the aim of making a survey of public monuments and sculpture in Britain ranging from medieval monuments to the most contemporary works. Information from the Edinburgh project was added to the RCAHMS database in October 2010 and again in 2012.
The PMSA (Public Monuments and Sculpture Association) Edinburgh Sculpture Project has been supported by Eastern Photocolour, Edinburgh College of Art, the Edinburgh World Heritage Trust, Historic Scotland, the Hope Scott Trust, The Old Edinburgh Club, the Pilgrim Trust, the RCAHMS, and the Scottish Archive Network.
