Inveraray Castle View of angle-tower
B 7862 CN
Description Inveraray Castle View of angle-tower
Date 1985
Catalogue Number B 7862 CN
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 457772
Scope and Content View of angle-tower at Inveraray Castle, Argyll and Bute Inveraray 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 angle-towers are 7.3m in diameter and 22.5m in height. The horizontal bands of stone, known as string courses, divide the tower into four storeys. The fourth string course is supported by moulded projecting blocks or corbels. The parapet at the top of the tower is crenellated, meaning that it has alternating indentations (crenelles) and raised portions (merlons). A slated conical roof and Jacobean-style chimneys were added in 1879 by Anthony Salvin (1799-1881). Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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