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Ceiling of the Signet Library. The Signet Library was designed by Robert Reid with interiors by William Stark. It was finished in 1822 in time for the visit to Edinburgh of George IV. William Henry Playfair and William Burn were also involved in working on the building. The building is a classical masterpiece and is a category A listed building ...
It remains a heavily used legal resource. As well as collecting legal works, it was also a deposit library, and in 1925 the non-legal books in their collection were given to the new National Library of Scotland, which is located next to the library, on George IV Bridge. [27] To the west of the north end of Parliament Hall is the Signet Library.
Signet Library. Add languages. Add links. Article; Talk; English. Read; Edit; View history ... Category A listed buildings in Edinburgh; Libraries in Scotland; Listed ...
Edinburgh Lunatic Asylum, Morningside, Edinburgh (1809–10) (demolished) Salutation Hotel, Perth (circa 1810) HM Prison Perth (1810–12) The library and picture gallery in Paxton House, Berwickshire (1812–13) North wings of General Register House in Edinburgh (1822-1834) Downpatrick Gaol, County Down, Ireland (1824–30) Wick Town Hall (1825)
Signet Library ceiling. He was born in Edinburgh in 1881. He was educated at George Watson's College then studied at the University of Edinburgh graduating with an MA. In 1922 he gained a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. [1] From 1900 he was librarian to the Society of Solicitors of the Supreme Courts, and from 1935 oversaw the Signet Library.
Advocates Library, Edinburgh; Innerpeffray Library; Glasgow Women's Library; Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh; Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow; Royal Medical Society, Edinburgh; Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh; Signet Library, Edinburgh
After a three-year closure and 18-month renovation, the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens reopens its tea room with an outdoor addition. ... English-style afternoon tea service ...
1812 Signet Library, Edinburgh, design of Signet Library and Upper Signet Library (formerly the Advocates Library) 1812 Bowhill House, Selkirk, design of central block (continued by William Atkinson) pre-1813 Designs for the City Observatory and Playfair Monument, on Calton Hill, Edinburgh later redesigned by William Henry Playfair