Archaeology Notes

Event ID 766469

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/766469

NO64SW 130 63534 40785

Water Tower

(Arbroath Corporation Water Works) [NAT]

OS (GIS) ep. 2.

Water Tower (dis) [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1986.

Water Tower (disused) [NAT]

OS (GIS) AIB, April 2006.

NMRS REFERENCE:

Architect: William G Lamond 1885.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

(Location cited as NO 637 408). Water-tower, Keptie Hill, built 1885, architect William Gillespie Lamond. A remarkable structure, basically rectangular, with battered coursed-rubble walls, topped by machiolated battlements. At the S end is a square tower with a circular corner turret.

J R Hume 1977.

This water tower occupies an elevated location within an area of residential development on the W side of Arbroath (NO64SW 46).

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 19 April 2006.

This water tower has three tanks: the larger, central tank is bolted on the inside. The roof has been taken down.

Information from RCAHMS (MMD), 27 August 2009