NT2573 : Revamped Old College Quadrangle (looking west) 1 2012-01-09 NT2573 : Revamped Old College Quadrangle (looking west) http://kml.geograph.org.uk/kml/style.kmz#def
The Quad remained uncompleted for 200 years, gravelled over, and for many years used as a car park. In 2011, following archaeological investigations, it was finally completed by being paved with Clashach sandstone and laid to lawn much as the original architects intended. Link Princess Anne was installed here as the new Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh on September 26th 2011. Link Exterior by Robert Adam (1789) whose cousin William Robertson was principal of the university at the time. Building began in 1789 but was interrupted by the Napoleonic Wars and stopped in 1793. Intermittent building and reshaping thereafter, but Adam's vision was never fully realised, until 2011. (Details from J. Gifford et al &quot;The Buildings of Scotland: Edinburgh&quot; published by Penguin Books, 2nd ed 1991, ie 'Pevsner'.) (view full size)

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