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Interior view of Cairndhu Hotel, Helensburgh, showing detail of corbel in dining room.
SC 1944084
Description Interior view of Cairndhu Hotel, Helensburgh, showing detail of corbel in dining room.
Date 3/1965
Collection Records of the Scottish National Buildings Record, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 1944084
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of DB 52
Scope and Content Scottish National Buildings Record. Written on verso of the mounted print: 'Shire: Dunbartonshire. Place: Helensburgh. Building: Cairndhu Hotel. Photographer: G.N. Date: March 1965. Detail of corbel in dining room’. Detail of corbel in dining room of Cairndhu, Rhu Road Lower, Helensburgh, Argyll & Bute Cairndhu, a two-storeyed asymmetrical villa, was built in 1871 to designs by architect William Leiper (1839-1916), and the service wing was extended in 1902. The interior was decorated by artist Daniel Cottier (1838-91), and includes Japanese-style painted ceilings and fine stained glass panels. It was converted to a hotel in 1956, and a residential home in 1984. This shows a corbel (supporting bracket), probably sculpted from plaster, in the dining room. It depicts two maidens in flowing robes, one of whom holds a sickle, a curved blade used for harvesting wheat. Together they represent fertility and fruitfulness. The other three corbels in this room show pairs of female figures representing angels, music and song, and youth and age. As this house was built for John Ure, a flour miller, merchant and Lord Provost of Glasgow, depictions of sowing and reaping in the corbels almost certainly reflect his milling interests. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference MW/BR/HEL/31
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