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Gillespie and Scott Collection

The library of the St Andrews firm of James Gillespie and Scott, architects, purchased 1994. There are around 450 volumes consisting of 19th and 20th century works of architectural history and design, as well as building and construction textbooks. The dept of manuscripts also has many of the firm`s plans as well as their ledgers and survey notebooks dating from 1887.

For the manuscript material, see the Gillespie and Scott collection in the Business section of the Manuscripts page.

Finding aids

The whole collection is available through the on-line catalogue. It has the prefix Gil.

Bibliography

Andrew Nairne, `James Gillespie and Scott´, Building for a new age, ed. John Frew, St Andrews (1984), p44-52.