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Interior - council chamber, north west wall, detail of stained glass window

C 4209 CN

Description Interior - council chamber, north west wall, detail of stained glass window

Date 13/3/1993

Catalogue Number C 4209 CN

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 336173, SC 2615029

Scope and Content Stained glass window inside council chamber of Ayr Town House ('Town's New Buildings'), South Ayrshire The Town's New Buildings were built near the High Tolbooth which they replaced. The building stone came from Cullaloe in Fife through the Forth Clyde Canal at a special cheap rate. The completion was celebrated with an inaugural ball in November 1830. The bell weighs over one tonne. It was made in Glasgow in 1830, but recast in 1897. There is a smaller bell higher up inside the steeple, it is inscribed: SOLI DEO GLORIA DALMAHOY 1700. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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