Architecture Notes

Event ID 828729

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/828729

NS97SE 7 96894 72516

Collection item SMO T/5/1 has tentatively been linked to this location (AC 13 August 2002).

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

Scottish Record Office:-

Lord Torphichen's loft in the new church.

Letter from Alexander Innes to [Lady Torphichen].

He reports on the meeting of the Heritors and their consideration of the seating in Lord Torphichen's loft. They are of the opinion that a stair should be built to the loft.

1771 SRO/GD1/820/2

Claims for seats in the new Church.

Letter from Lady Elizabeth Torphichen. She indicates the seating she requires and expresses the opinion that the church should be complted before their proportion of the cost was wholly paid. The letter to Robert Menzies accompanied plans of the old and new churches.

1771 SRO/GD1/820/6

The National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, contains among the 'uncatalogued MSS of General Hutton and numbered 70, vol.1, a plan, dated 1813, of the remains of the Preceptory of Torphichen lying about five miles South of Linlithgow.