Architecture Notes

Event ID 680701

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NJ82NE 45.01 88019 26295

1821; 1832 mort-house.

G Hay 1957.

Mort-house built 1832 for Captain John Marr: circular, rough, ashlar granite; conical slated roof truncated and platformed; stout oak door with a protective bar arrangement for keyhole; revolving coffin platform 3ft from floor within. John Marr (Cairnbrogie) was the designer, Alex. Wallace (Smiddyhill) the mason and Thomas Smith (Old Meldrum) the wright.

[Newspaper reference cited].

J Ritchie 1912; NMRS, MS/712/80.