Elevation, plans and cross-section of Bell Mill and gazebo.
DC 29759
Description Elevation, plans and cross-section of Bell Mill and gazebo.
Date c. 1980
Catalogue Number DC 29759
Category Prints and Drawings
Copies SC 346854, SC 346855, SC 346856, SC 346857, SC 346858, SC 346859, SC 346860, A 63183 P
Scope and Content Plans and elevations of Bell Mill (also known as West Mill) at Stanley, Perthshire Bell Mill was completed by 1790 and is probably the best surviving example of a mill of this period. It is under 9 metres wide and has low ceilings. The outside is built in stone to first floor level, with locally made bricks above. The belfry is original. Its bell would have been used to wake the workers in the village in the days before alarm clocks. The ogival-roofed lodge house to the left was added around 1876 and is in keeping with the style of the rest of the building. Stanley was founded in 1785 by George Dempster, Richard Arkwright, inventor and industrialist, and a group of Perth merchants. Like New Lanark, founded in the same year, it was built as a model factory village. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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