Architecture Notes

Event ID 785661

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NMRS REFERENCE:

Architect: Alexander McGill 1716 - earlier house burnt in 1877.

Mr Adam 1768/9 for marble Jambs & hearths etc.

William Burn - lodge c.1820's

Sir Robert Rowand Anderson 1879

The original mansion built in 1712-18 was a spacious but plain edifice consisting of a main block (200 x 50 feet) with wings to the West of both the North and South gables. This main block was destroyed by fire in 1877 but a Catholic chapel which had recently been formed in the North wing was saved. As rebuilt since 1879 from designs by Mr Rowand Anderson at a cost of about #200,000. Mount Stuart is a magnificent Gothic pile.

Frescos by N.N.Lonsdale (as at Cardiff Castle)

Survey by James Craig 1769. A design for alterations.

Thomas Mawson c.1899 - design for garden.

Copies of letters from R. Campbell to 2nd E. of Bute - 1 typescript sheet (R6(P6))

The Isle of Bute in the Olden Time by James K Newison, 1895. Volume 2. - text & photograph of painting of 18th century house.

RW Schultz, Extracts from Office Contract Journals, Fee Books etc. - typescript (R3/P109))

Inventory to drawings in Edinburgh University Library - typescript

NMRS Plans

I G Lindsay Collection, W/304

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

Scottish Record Office

Building of a Lodge at Mount Stuart.

Letter from the M. of Bute to O. Tyndall Bruce.

A new lodge has been built to 'a plan of my own which of course I think is very successful - though perhaps not so ornamental as Mr Deering's.

26 January

1837 GD152/53/2/Bundle 1/16

*[Deering, John Peter (1787-1850), Architect].

Sketch plan and estimates for mason work for kitchen and servants' quarters by Mr Smith

Late 17th c. GD18/5961