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The following date-based events are associated with this building: |
| From | To | Event type | Notes |
 | 1874 | 1875 | Competition design | Won in limited competition. |
 | 1876 | 1886 | | Medical School built |
 | 1884 | | Design exhibited | 'University extension' |
 | 1887 | 1897 | | Graduation Hall (McEwan Hall) built |
 | 1953 | 1957 | Won award or awards | Won competition for school extension. Phases 1-4 then carried out intil 1957. |
 | 1958 | 1960 | Addition | S extension. Perhaps at this time also added the central medical library. |
 | 1980 | 1982 | Build/construction | Paving of forecourt to E |
 | 1988 | 1996 | Proposed | Proposals and listed building consent for major regeneration project at McEwan Hall - Lottery funding application. |
 | 1993 | 2003 | Feasibility study drawn up | Studies of conservation issues and long-term viability of hall, with proposals for integrating it with Medical School. Aim was to create new visitor focus for University and to anticipate types of use for redundant teaching and research spaces in due course. Work on hold while funds raised etc. Also proposals for linking upper levels of McEwan Hall and a suite of spaces to W - whoch resulted in design studies for sequence of gallery spaces for permanent collections and touring exhibitions. |
 | 2000 | 2002 | Survey | Complete measured survey of Old Medical School - used by University Works Department for renovation work in phases - resulted in a set of decanting plans used in complex time series neede for relocation. |
The following individuals or organisations have carried out design/construction work. Where architects or practices worked together, matching letters appear beside their names in the Partnership Group column. |
| Name | Role | Partnership Group | From | To | Notes |
 | (Sir) Robert Rowand Anderson | Architect | A | 1874 | 1875 | Won in limited competition and secured job |
 | James Maitland Wardrop | Architect | B | 1874 | 1875 | Competition design - not successful |
 | Wardrop & Reid | Architectural practice | B | 1874 | 1875 | Competition design - not successful |
 | Charles George Hood Kinnear | Architect | C | 1874 | 1875 | Two competition schemes |
 | John Dick Peddie | Architect | C | 1874 | 1875 | Two competition schemes |
 | Peddie & Kinnear | Architectural practice | C | 1874 | 1875 | Two competition schemes |
 | (Sir) Robert Rowand Anderson | Architect | D | 1876 | 1886 | Medical School built |
 | George Mackie Watson | Architect | D | 1876 | 1886 | Medical School - as apprentice/assistant/chief assistant to Robert Rowand Anderson |
 | George Miller Cunningham | Architect | D | 1876(?) | | Engaged as structural engineer by Robert Rowand Anderson |
 | Fredric Berkeley-Miller | Architect | D | 1877 | 1879 | Medical School - as assistant to Robert Rowand Anderson |
 | Thomas Rollo Walker Mossman | Architect | D | 1878 | 1886 | Medical School - as apprentice/assistant to Robert Rowand Anderson |
 | Anderson & Browne | Architectural practice | D | 1881 | 1883 | Medical School built |
 | Wardrop, Anderson & Browne | Architectural practice | D | 1883 | 1885 | Medical School built |
 | Wardrop & Anderson | Architectural practice | D | 1885 | 1886 | Medical School built |
 | (Sir) Robert Rowand Anderson | Architect | E | 1887 | 1897 | McEwan Hall built; also lantern pillar |
 | George Mackie Watson | Architect | E | 1887 | 1897 | McEwan Hall - as chief assistant to Robert Rowand Anderson |
 | Joseph Marr Johnston | Architect | E | 1887 | 1890 | McEwan Hall - as assistant to Wardrop & Anderson |
 | Victor Daniel Horsburgh | Architect | E | 1887 | 1894 | McEwan Hall - as apprentice and assistant to Robert Rowand Anderson |
 | Wardrop & Anderson | Architectural practice | E | 1887 | | McEwan Hall built; also lantern pillar |
 | John Stuart Syme | Architect | E | 1888 | 1896(?) | McEwan Hall - as apprentice/assistant to Robert Rowand Anderson |
 | James Lindsay Grant | Architect | E | 1890 | 1896 | McEwan Hall - as junior assistant to Robert Rowand Anderson |
 | David Peacock | Architect | E | c. 1893(?) | c. 1896(?) | McEwan Hall - as assistant to Robert Rowand Anderson |
 | Arthur Forman Balfour Paul | Architect | F | After 1903 | Before 1933 | Reconstruction of Medical School |
 | Rowand Anderson & Paul | Architectural practice | F | After 1903 | Before 1933 | Reconstruction of Medical School |
 | Scott Morton & Co (later Scott Morton & Tynecastle Co Ltd; finally Scott Morton Ltd) | Architectural practice | F | After 1903 | Before 1933 | Interior work on reconstruction of Medical School, instructed by Balfour Paul |
 | James George Cordiner | | G | 1938 | | Scheme drawn up - not built |
 | John Ross McKay | Architect | H | 1939 | 1940 | Scheme drawn up - not built because of war |
 | Walter Neil Wilson Ramsay | Architect | U | 1953 | 1957 | Won competition and Phases 1-4 carried out. |
 | C J McNair Elder & Ramsay | | T | 1958 | 1960 | S extension. Perhaps at this time also added the central medical library. |
 | Walter Neil Wilson Ramsay | Architect | T | 1958 | 1960 | S extension. Perhaps at this time also added the central medical library. |
 | Andrew Mackie | Architect | S | 1980 | 1982 | Paving of forecourt to E. Job architect. |
 | Percy Johnson-Marshall & Associates | Architectural practice, Planning Consultancy | S | 1980 | 1982 | Paving of forecourt to E |
 | Edward Taylor | Architect | U | 1988 | 1996 | Proposals and listed building consent for major regeneration project at McEwan Hall - Lottery funding application. |
 | Edward Taylor | Architect | T | 1993 | 2003 | Studies of conservation issues and long-term viability of hall, with proposals for integrating it with Medical School. Aim was to create new visitor focus for University and to anticipate types of use for redundant teaching and research spaces in due course. Work on hold while funds raised etc. Also proposals for linking upper levels of McEwan Hall and a suite of spaces to W - whoch resulted in design studies for sequence of gallery spaces for permanent collections and touring exhibitions. |
 | Edward Taylor | Architect | T | 2000 | 2002 | Complete measured survey of Old Medical School - used by University Works Department for renovation work in phases - resulted in a set of decanting plans used in complex time series neede for relocation. |
The following books contain references to this building: |
| Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes |
 | Fenton, Clive | 2002 | A Century of Change in George Square, 1876-1976 | v5, ns | Book of the Old Edinburgh Club, 2002, pp35-81 | pp35-81 |
 | Gifford, John, McWilliam, Colin and Walker, David M | 1984 | Edinburgh (The Buildings of Scotland) | | Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Ltd | pp245-6 |
 | Graves, Algernon | 1905 | The Royal Academy of Arts: a complete dictionary of exhibitors and their works… | 1905-6 | London: Graves and Bell | 1884, no 1236 |
 | Harper, Roger H | 1983 | Victorian Architectural Competitions: An Index to British and Irish Architectural Competitions… | | London: Mansell Publishing | |
 | McKinstry, Sam | 1991 | Rowand Anderson, the Premier Architect of Scotland | | Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press | pp70-1 (illustrates Anderson and Wardrop & Reid designs) |
 | RIBA | 1975 | RIBA Directory of practices | | | |
 | Savage, Peter | 1979 | Edinburgh University's Extension Scheme of 1874 | pp 95-104 | Old Edinburgh Club XXX1V pt 2 | |
The following archives hold material relating to this building: |
| Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes |
 | Courtesy of Edward Taylor | Information sent via email to Yvonne Hillyard | | Sent April 2011 |
 | Edinburgh University Library | Anderson Collection (Plans and drawings) | | Drawings (1874-79). Also Wardrop designs. |
 | Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 27992 | Medical School |
 | Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 27993 | McEwan Hall- 15 Bristo Square |
 | Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 27994 | McEwan Lantern Pillar |
 | National Monuments Record of Scotland/NMRS, RCAHMS | Dick Peddie and McKay Collection | | DPM/1807/90/1 Plans only |
 | Professor David M Walker personal archive | Professor David M Walker, notes and collection of archive material | | Information on Scott Morton & Co involvement |
 | RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum | RIBA Nomination Papers | | Fredric Berkeley-Miller: L no474 (microfilm reel 32); Victor Daniel Horsburgh: F v21 no1473 (microfilm reel 13); Joseph Marr Johnston: L v18 no1372; Thomas Rollo Walker Mossman: L v10 no586 (microfilm reel 32); Arthur Forman Balfour Paul: F no3134 (box 17); John Stuart Syme: L v13 no858; George Mackie Watson: L v21 no1659 & F no2586 (box 6); Walter Neil Wilson Ramsay: F no6398 (Combined Box 136) |
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