1.      A. Fraser, "A Reassessment of Craig’s New Town Plans, 1766-1774", in K Cruft and A Fraser (ed.), James Craig, 1744-1795, (Mercat Press, Edinburgh, 1995), pp.25-47, especially pp.37-38.

2.     Act of the Town Council, 13th September 1769, quoted in AJ Youngson, The Making of Classical Edinburgh, 1750-1840, (Edinburgh University Press, 1966 and 1988), p.66.

3.     See WS Craig, History of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, (Oxford, 1976), pp.73-78, and the account in K Cruft and A Fraser (ed.), James Craig, 1744-1795, (Mercat Press, Edinburgh, 1995), pp.106-7.  The Physicians Hall was demolished in 1843, and replaced by the head office of the Commercial Bank.  The new Royal College of Physicians building, in Queen Street, was designed in 1844 by Thomas Hamilton.

4.     AJ Youngson, The Making of Classical Edinburgh, 1750-1840, (Edinburgh University Press, 1966 and 1988), p.92.

5.     AJ Youngson, The Making of Classical Edinburgh, 1750-1840, (Edinburgh University Press 1966 and 1988), pp.82-3.

6.     AJ Youngson, The Making of Classical Edinburgh, 1750-1840, (Edinburgh University Press 1966 and 1988), pp.83-4.  For the construction of St Andrew’s Church, see Ibid., p.84-6, and G Hay, The Architecture of Scottish Post-Reformation Churches, (Oxford University Press, 1957), pp.97-9.

7.     K Cruft and A Fraser (ed.), James Craig, 1744-1795, (Mercat Press, Edinburgh,1995), pp.106-7.

8.     Unusually for this date, the steps surround the portico on three sides rather than just one.  This can, however, be paralleled in Adam’s portico at Shardeloes, Buckinghamshire.  It is also to be found at Gunton Church, Norfolk, by Adam, although the portico here has only three steps.

9.      Soane Museum, Adam Collection, Volume 32, Drawings 1-4.  The elevation of the west side is Drawing 4.

10.    Soane Museum, Adam Collection, Volume 32, Drawings 5-7.  The entrance-level plan in Drawing 5 has a square central space on plan, Drawings 6 (entrance level) and 7 (gallery level) have a circular central space.

11.    M Whiffen, Thomas Archer, Architect of the English Baroque, (Art and Technics Books, 1950), pp.29-30.

12.    Although one of the parish churches of Edinburgh lies within the Greyfriars burial ground, the precinct of the former Franciscan Friary was acquired by the City Council in 1562 specifically as a cemetery, and it was only decided to build a parish church there in 1601.  See J Gifford, C McWilliam and D Walker, The Buildings of Scotland: Edinburgh, (Penguin, 1984), p.152.

13.    At St Andrew’s Church, the Council had already feued part of its eventual site to a certain John Young.  In agreeing to exchange part of his ground for a corresponding piece just to the west, Young stipulated that there should be "no burying in the Church or any part of the Area belonging to it," but this stipulation may have been to ensure that Craig’s original intent (obvious, from the New Town plan) should be followed.  See AJ Youngson, The Making of Classical Edinburgh, 1750-1840, (Edinburgh University Press, 1966 and 1988), p.84.

14.    AG Fraser, The Building of Old College, (Edinburgh University Press, 1989), p.121.

15.    Dr L Macintyre, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh: Past Times, Personalities and Professions, 1792-1992, (National Trust for Scotland, 1992), p.7.  For the slow take-up of the feus, see AJ Youngson, The Making of Classical Edinburgh, 1750-1840, (Edinburgh University Press 1966 and 1988), p.97.

16.    For example, the map in Kincaid’s Travellers Companion of 1794, reproduced in AG Fraser, The Building of Old College, (Edinburgh University Press, 1989), p.4.

17.   AJ Youngson, The Making of Classical Edinburgh, 1750-1840, (Edinburgh University Press, 1966 and 1988), p.223.

18.   AJ Youngson, The Making of Classical Edinburgh, 1750-1840, (Edinburgh University Press, 1966 and 1988), p.217.

19.    For Reid’s Church of St George and details of its cost, see AJ Youngson, The Making of Classical Edinburgh, 1750-1840, (Edinburgh University Press 1966 and 1988), pp.189-91.

20.    J Gifford, C McWilliam and D Walker, The Buildings of Scotland: Edinburgh, (Penguin, 1984), p.291.