Glenfinnan Monument Survey | Canmore

Date 3 November 1997 - 17 March 1998

Event ID 545632

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Type Project

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Listed Buildings Recording Programme 1997

Glenfinnan Monument Survey

People and Organisations

Related Event(s)

Event	Type	Subtype	Notes	Date
545489	RECORDING	PHOTOGRAPHIC SURVEY		3 November 1997
545490	RECORDING	MEASURED SURVEY		15 March 1998
545499	DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNTS	NOTE	The Glenfinnan Monument, now in the care of the National Trust for Scotland, is one of the principal symbols of Highland Jacobite culture. Set at the head of Loch Shiel, it marks the place at or near which the Jacobite standard was raised in 1745 to signal the start of the uprising led by Prince Charles Edward Stuart. Despite its fame as a Jacobite symbol, other aspects of the Monument have been overlooked, including the circumstances of its patronage by a local landowner with an instinct for excess, its history as a structure and the fact it was the work of one of the foremost Scottish Architects of the first half of the 19th century, James Gillespie Graham. More speculatively, it is also argued here that its dramatic relationship to its topographical setting marks it out as a key monument of the Romantic period. [...]	1999

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