Field Visit
Date April 1985
Event ID 1156563
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
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Monkton, Windmill NS 3620 2805 NS32NE 3
The shell of an 18th-century vaulted windmill is situated 530m NE of Monkton old parish church (NS32NE 1). The tower (3.35rn in diameter at ground level within walls 0.9m thick), which rises from a base plinth and is slightly tapered, .comprises a basement and two storeys; the slated conical roof is a more recent addition. Opposed doorways are set at ground level and there are two single-light windows on the first floor; a larger opening is of more recent date. On the S the basement opens into a barrel-vaulted chamber (up to 7.1 m long by 3.35m wide). During the early 19th-century the tower was converted for use as a dovecot.
RCAHMS 1985, visited April 1985.
(Armstrong 1775; Donnachie and Stewart 1966, 279, 288, no. 9; Douglas, Oglethorpe and Hume 1984, 11, Appendix pp. 4, 6).
