View from NNW of NNW front of S lodge

Description View from NNW of NNW front of S lodge

Date 11/6/2002

Catalogue Number SC 754912

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of E 32455

Scope and Content South Lodge, Nos 1 & 2 New Lanark Road, New Lanark, South Lanarkshire, from north-north-west This shows the two-storeyed south lodge which is one of a pair of lodges built c.1810 at the entrance to New Lanark. The three-bayed building has a projecting central bay which is topped by a plain triangular pediment. The flanking bays on the ground floor have windows in two parts (bipartites). The lodges were designed in a Neo-Classical style like many of the other buildings at New Lanark. For instance the School, the Institute and the Engineers' Shop all have similar central pedimented bays as seen here. In 1999 these buildings were in private ownership. New Lanark was founded c.1785 by David Dale (1739-1806), a Glasgow merchant, and Richard Arkwright (1732-92), inventor of a water-frame for cotton spinning. Powered by water flowing from the Falls of Clyde the first cotton mill opened in 1786 and by 1799 the complex was the largest of its kind in Scotland. Robert Owen (1771-1858), who was married to David Dale's daughter, was one of a group who bought the mills in 1800. He transformed them into a model industrial community with good working conditions, houses, a non-profit store, a school and an institute for workers. Owen's partners bought the mills in 1828 and operated them until 1881 when another partnership took over. The Gourock Ropework Company ran the site until 1968 which is now mainly under the care of the New Lanark Conservation Trust (founded 1974-5). New Lanark was designated a World Heritage Site in 2001. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference Original: E32455

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