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The Architecture of Scotland, 1660-1750

Louisa Humm, John Lowrey, and Aonghus MacKechnie

Abstract

This volume tells the story of Scotland’s unique and influential contribution to the Age of Classicism during a period of major political and architectural change. Interposed between the decline of the Scottish castle and its revival as Scotch Baronial architecture, proto-Enlightenment Scotland straddled the age of ‘Glorious Revolution’ and the 1707 parliamentary union with England.

Keywords: Scottish architecture, Classical architecture, Scottish castles, 1707 parliamentary union, Country house, Designed landscape, Scottish urbanism

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2020 Print ISBN-13: 9781474455268
Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: May 2022 DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474455268.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Louisa Humm, editor
Historic Environment Scotland

John Lowrey, editor
Edinburgh University

Aonghus MacKechnie, editor
University of Strathclyde

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Abbreviations

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Figures

Tables

Part I Setting the Scene

Introduction

Aonghus MacKechnie

1 Political Economy and the Shaping of Early Modern Scotland

Allan I. Macinnes

Part II Classicism and the Castle

2 The Paired Columned Entrance of Holyroodhouse as a Solomonic Signifier

Ian Campbell

3 Exiting Europe? The Royal Works in the Age of 1689 Revolution and 1707 Union

Aonghus MacKechnie

4 Sir William Bruce: Classicism and the Castle

John Lowrey

5 A Classic Looks at the Gothic: Sir John Clerk, Ruins and Romance

Iain Gordon Brown

Part III The Business of Building, Trades, Materials and Pattern Books

6 Scottish Ironwork, 1670–1730

Ali Davey and Aonghus MacKechnie

7 Thomas Albourn, William Bruce’s Plasterer: ‘An Englishman and the Best Plaisterer that was ever yet in Scotland’

William Napier

8 The Roof Structure of George Heriot’s Hospital Chapel and Roof Design in Scotland During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Anna Serafini and Cristina González-Longo

9 Colen Campbell, James Gibbs and Sir John Vanbrugh: Rethinking the Origins of the British Architectural Plate Book

James Legard

Part IV The Country House

10 The Architectural Innovations of Mr James Smith of Whitehill (c. 1645–1731) within the European Context

Cristina González-Longo

11 From England to Scotland in 1701: the Duchess of Buccleuch Returns to Dalkeith Palace

Sally Jeffery

12 Women Patrons and Designers in Early Eighteenth-century Scotland: Lady Panmure and Lady Nairne

Clarisse Godard Desmarest

13 Architectural Works by Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun

Rory Lamb

14 Mannerism in the Work of John Douglas in Eighteenth-century Scotland

Dimitris Theodossopoulos

Part V Gardens

15 ‘The Inexpressible Need of Inclosing and Planting’: Country House Policies in Scotland, 1660–1750

Christopher Dingwall

16 The Terraced Garden in Scotland in the Seventeenth Century

Marilyn Brown

17 Alexander Edward’s European Tour, 1701–2

John Lowrey

18 William Adam and Formal Landscape Design in Scotland, 1720–45

Louisa Humm

19 William Adam and Antiquity: an Arcadian Retreat at Arniston?

Nick Haynes

Part VI Urban Architecture

20 Town Housing and Planning: Alexander McGill, James Gibbs and Allan Dreghorn in Early Georgian Glasgow

Anthony Lewis

21 Interpretation of European Classicism: Three Eighteenth-century University Libraries

Deborah Mays

22 Edinburgh and Venice: Comparing the Evolution in Communal Living in Geographically Challenged Mercantile Communities

Giovanna Guidicini

23 Living Horizontally: the Origin of the Tenement in Paris and Edinburgh

Clarisse Godard Desmarest

24 William Adam’s Public Buildings

David W. Walker

Part VII Conclusion

25 Was Scotland a ‘Narrow Place’?

Ranald MacInnes

End Matter

Notes

Index