RCAHMS: Exploring Scotland's Heritage - Lothian and Borders, 1985

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Date 1985

Event ID 1047594

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Exploring Scotland's Heritage

Some 103 detailed site decriptions from this 1985 publication were entered into Canmore in 2017. The book was a collaboration between the author John R Baldwin, the series editor Dr Anna Ritchie, and RCAHMS staff, and aimed to provide a thorough introduction to a wide range of monuments (dating from prehistoric to recent times) in a region of Scotland.

Information from HES Survey and Recording (GFG) 30 January 2019

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1016136	DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNTS	PUBLICATION ACCOUNT	By the 17th century, Craigmillar Castle had more or less achieved its final form. In 1661 the west wings were reconstructed for Sir John Gilmour who had just bought the barony from the Prestons-its owners since 1374 and recalled not only in armorial tablets but also in the P-shaped hollows of a pond outwith the southern walls, a pond once stocked to provide fresh fish for those within. [...]	1985
1016143	DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNTS	PUBLICATION ACCOUNT	A 'New Kirk of Ettrick' was built early in the 16th century, though the present church dates from 1824-a typical T-shaped, post-Reformation building. Internally it remains a 'preaching kirk'. The pulpit with its characteristic sounding board sunnounted by a dove,and the precentor's desk in front of it stand in the centre of the south side; the pews face inwards from the east and west sides and from a deep north aisle. Over the west end and the aisle there are galleries reached by a stair in the tower; and over the east end there is a laird's loft, reached by the outside stair rising either side of the east door. Before the present Table was introduced, on Communion Sundays boards were simply placed over the pews immediately in front of the pulpit. [...]	1985
1016149	DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNTS	PUBLICATION ACCOUNT	The Lothian Coal Company began to sink the Lady Victoria shaft in 1890. Originally planned to reach 531 m, uncontrollable flooding caused it to be backfilled to 503 m. The original block of buildings still survives - brick-built furnace house, winding-engine house and ancillary buildings. Seven of the second set of 12 'Lancashire' boilers remain in position, producing steam until 1982 to help power underground machinery as well as the pit-head baths and the winding-engine. [...]	1985

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