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Recording Your Heritage Online

Event ID 563336

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Recording Your Heritage Online

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/563336

Town Hall, Market Place, 1862, J Russell Mackenzie. Replaced a townhouse of 1807, of similar grace to those at Old Aberdeen and Oldmeldrum. The triangular Market Place is dominated by the present baroque, granite ashlar town hall, of

two storeys with projecting end bays topped with handsome lions. Its centrepiece has giant Doric pilasters, and a balustraded parapet from which rises a fanciful, diagonally set cupola of Spanish baroque inspiration in painted wood.

On a sunny day the whole has a pleasing Empire look, but has been unbalanced by the addition of the plain Library and Museum, 1911, H MacLennan of Jenkins & Marr.

Taken from "Aberdeenshire: Donside and Strathbogie - An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Ian Shepherd, 2006. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk

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