Architecture Notes

Event ID 716131

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/716131

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NMRS REFERENCE:

Ministry of Works - Guardianship

NMRS Printroom

W Schomberg Scott Photograph Collection Acc no 1997/39

the West towers - 2 prints

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

National library - Country Life May 17th 1902 - article and photographs

National library - Nattes Drawings vol 1. Nos 29, 30 - 2 drawings

vol 1. Nos 32 - 1 drawing

National Library "Tour in the East of Scotland made by James Bailey 1787. Mss 3294-5 nos 8 & 9 - 2 sketches

"Sketches by James Nasmyth" MSS 3241-3 - 1 sketch (no 125)

4 sketches (Nos. 127. 131-133)

Drawings stored in Inverness (see architectural catalogue for Moray, Elgin). Part with D.G. Wilson, remainder with T.C. Watson. Students of Aberdeen School of Architecture.

Victoria and Albert Museum:

V & A P A.154.A,E165-1942. Design for a memorial to the Duchess of Gordon in Elgin Cathedral with a part obliterated contract note on the reverse in which Lord Adam Gordon agrees to pay #140 for the memorial and to allow Scheemakers as long as he wishes to complete. Signed 'P Scheemakers Ft'

Scottish Record Office:

Appeal for rebuilding Elgin chapel.

The roof has collapsed and the building must be razed to the ground.

Letter to Lady Pitcalnie. It explains that the congregation requires financial help in order to rebuild.

1758 GD 199/227