Field Visit
Date 6 July 1909
Event ID 1096000
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1096000
104. Bishop's Palace, Dornoch.
Opposite the Cathedral at Dornoch stand the remains of the Bishop’s Palace. Like the Cathedral, it was destroyed in 1570, and after lying in ruins was partially restored in the beginning of the 19th century for use as a County Court House and Jail. At the NW. corner is a lofty tower having angle bartizans and crow-stepped gables, with a round stair turret containing the entrance filling the angle between it and a modernised wing.
See Cast. and Dom. Arch., ii. p. 336 (illus.); Origines, ii. pt. ii. p. 647. OS 6-inch map: Sutherland Sheet cxiii.
RCAHMS 1911, visited (AOC) 6th July 1909.
