The University of Edinburgh and the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh jointly ran the Edinburgh Dental Hospital and School. Its Chambers Street building (1927) was reconstructed by Rowand Anderson, Kininmonth & Paul in 1953. When the Corporation of the City of Edinburgh refused consent for a site for a new larger building in Lauriston Place, in 1965, Percy Johnson-Marshall was asked to prepare a feasibility study for the only site available, which was between Crichton Street and Marshall Street (1973). This had already been earmarked for Student Amenities, a Physical Education building and buildings for the Science Faculty (Appleton Tower extension). However the Empire Garage site, on Potterrow, was re-allocated for the Physical Education building and designs for the new Dental Hospital were produced by Morris & Steedman (1975-1977). The funding did not materialise and nothing was built, however.