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University of Edinburgh Comprehensive Development Area: Old College Redevelopment, 1949-1977

 Sub-Series
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/12

Scope and Contents

University of Edinburgh Comprehensive Development Area: Old College Redevelopment consists of:

  1. reports and photographs, (1964-1977)
  2. plans, (1949-1977)

Dates

  • Creation: 1949-1977

Creator

Language of Materials

This material is in English

Physical Description

1 file, 2 plan files and 1 plan box

Conditions Governing Access

Material relating to living individuals may be restricted under the Data Protection Act, 1998.

Biographical / Historical

The main building of the University of Edinburgh is Old College built during the 18th and 19th centuries to designs by Robert Adam and William Henry Playfair. Since then there have been successive works to repair, alter and convert its accommodation and upgrade the quadrangle. In the late 1940s, R Gordon Brown produced an unexecuted scheme, as did Ian G Lindsay & partners, in the mid-1960s. Percy Johnson-Marshall & Associates produced reports on its rehabilitation in 1976-1977.

Extent

From the undefined: 3 metres