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Publication Account
Date 1996
Event ID 1018988
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1018988
The present parish church of Hamilton was designed by William Adam, the father of Robert Adam, in 1732 figure 15. It is the only extant example of a William Adam church. Of classical design, it is in the form of a Greek cross. Apart from the cupola above the dome, which replaced a cone-shaped, slated roof, the church is largely in its original state. Built of local stone on the site of an earlier horse market, it was deliberately placed hereto the west of the eighteenth-century town-in order to encourage a movement of settlement in this direction, and away from the ducal policies
Information from ‘Historic Hamilton: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1996).
