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Inveraray Castle View of Inveraray Castle before addition of conical roofs on angle-towers

AG 3588

Description Inveraray Castle View of Inveraray Castle before addition of conical roofs on angle-towers

Date c. 1870

Collection General Collection

Catalogue Number AG 3588

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 457760

Scope and Content View of original entrance front of Inveraray Castle, Argyll and Bute Archibald, 3rd Duke of Argyll, who succeeded to the title in 1743, was responsible for replacing the 15th-century Inveraray Castle with the present castle. He also initiated the removal of the town of Inveraray half a mile south to a new site. The new castle, a good example of early Gothic Revival style, was begun in 1745 to designs by the architect Roger Morris (1695-1749). The architect John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) and Dugald Campbell, a military engineer (d.1757), may have provided ideas. The architect who supervised the building of the castle was William Adam (1689-1748) and his son, John (1721-92), worked on the interior. This view, taken before the great fire in 1877, shows the main entrance to the castle. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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