Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . Fig. 220.—The Old Quadrangle, Edinburgh University, looking West. Over the main entrance to the building the following inscription maybe read :— ACADEMIA JACOBI VI., SCOTORUM REGIS ANNO POST CHRISTUM NATUMMDLXXXIL, IXSTITUTA ; ANNOQUE MDCCLXXXIX., RENOVARI COEPTA ;REGNANTE GEORGIO III., PRINCIPE MUNIFICENTISSIMO ; URBIS ELDER ; ACADEMEE PRIMARIO GULIELMO ROBERTO ADAM. The material mainly used in the erection of the building excell
Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . Fig. 220.—The Old Quadrangle, Edinburgh University, looking West. Over the main entrance to the building the following inscription maybe read :— ACADEMIA JACOBI VI., SCOTORUM REGIS ANNO POST CHRISTUM NATUMMDLXXXIL, IXSTITUTA ; ANNOQUE MDCCLXXXIX., RENOVARI COEPTA ;REGNANTE GEORGIO III., PRINCIPE MUNIFICENTISSIMO ; URBIS ELDER ; ACADEMEE PRIMARIO GULIELMO ROBERTO ADAM. The material mainly used in the erection of the building excellent Craigleith stone which has been used so extensivelythroughout both old and new Edinburgh. The cost of the University THE ERECTION OF EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY BUILDING 295 buildings, as reduced by Playfair, amounted, by the year 1S28, tothe sum of ,£161,00c1 In the year 1791 the brothers prepared their designs for partof the College of Justice at Edinburgh, upon which they showed aproposed treatment for the Court of Session and for the libraries. Fig. 221.—Charlotte Square. Edinburgh. for the Faculty of Advocates and for the Writers to the Signet. Itis probable that the drawings of Charlotte Square and St GeorgesChurch were also executed at about the same time. The work inCharlotte Square was, owing to various circumstances, not carriedout until about 1800, some years after the decease of both Robertand James Adam (Fig. 221). The square measures about 180 yds. 1 Vide paper read by Prof. Baldwin Brown, in 1890, to the Edinburgh ArchitecturalAssociation. 296 THE LIVES AND WORK OF ROBERT AND JAMES ADAM each way, and corresponds with that of St Andrew, at the oppositeextremity of George Street. While the brothers were attending to their commissions atEdinburgh, their services were also sought at Glasgow, where theyerected the Assembly Rooms, in Ingram Street, the Royal Infirmary,and a number of other buildings. Some of the drawings for theAssembly Rooms were executed in the y
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