St. Andrew's House
The St. Andrew's House in Regent Road on Calton Hill in Edinburgh belonging to Category A listed buildings. It has been the seat of the Office of the First Minister of Scotland and the Scottish Government since 1999 .
history
St. Andrew's House was built in the 1930s on the ruins of the former prison Calton jail built. When the call for home rule , an independent government for Scotland, grew louder in the 1920s, the British government appointed a Secretary of State for Scotland with the rank of cabinet member in 1928 . In the course of this first step in the direction of devolution , the administrative detachment from London, he was made head of health, agriculture and education in Scotland. This minister had his seat in the newly built St. Andrew's House in Edinburgh .
In a referendum in Scotland in 1997 , 74% of the electorate voted for a partial autonomy for Scotland ( devolution ), on the basis of which a Scottish Parliament was elected on May 6, 1999 after 300 years . Parliament elects a First Minister ( First Minister ) as head of the Scottish Executive , has his office since 1999, St. Andrew's House as a seat. From 2001 the buildings were restored.
architecture
The Art Deco building was designed by Thomas S. Tait of Burnet, Tait and Lorne, architects . Construction began in November 1935 and was completed in 1939.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Locations - St Andrew's House - Calton jail . Scottish Government. Retrieved February 4, 2016.
- ↑ St Andrew's House . Scottish Government. Retrieved February 4, 2016.
Coordinates: 55 ° 57 '12.15 " N , 3 ° 11' 2.75" W.