Architecture Notes

Event ID 786189

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/786189

NS79SE 6.01 78996 94035 Palace

NS79SE 6.02 78984 94096 Chapel Royal

NS79SE 6.03 79044 94025 Forework

NS79SE 6.04 79017 94077 Great Hall

NS79SE 6.05 79030 94095 Mint

NS79SE 6.06 78961 94073 The King's Old Buildings

NS79SE 6.07 79068 94007 Outer Defences

NS79SE 6.08 Cancelled See NS79SE 7

NS79SE 6.09 79049 94068 Kitchen Range

NS79SE 6.10 79110 93928 Esplanade

NS79SE 6.11 79050 94038 Governor's House

NS79SE 6.12 79090 93952 Princess Louise's CXI Battalion South African War Memorial

NS79SE 6.13 79123 93983 Bruce Statue

NS79SE 6.14 78954 94116 Sundial

NS79SE 6.15 79234 93937 Married Quarters

NS79SE 6.16 78468 93175 Kings Park

NS79SE 6.17 79064 94043 Regimental Headquarters

NS79SE 6.18 78967 94153 Nether Bailey

See also:

NS79SE 7 78896 93646 King's Knot

NS79SE 21 79261 93808 Argyll's Lodgings

NMRS REFERENCE

NMRS Printroom - Inglis photograph Collection

acc no 1994/90

2 prints showing view from King's Knot

1 close view of castle

NATIONAL LIBRARY REFERENCE:

'Master masons of Scotland', Vol I, p.3, 46 and 47

The Castle of Stirling (from catalogue slip)

Is under the charge of the Commissioners of H M Works

The National Library of Scotland holds a series of original drawings (many are coloured) of the Board of Ordnance, relating to the years of the 18th century before and after the Jacobite Revolutions of 1715 and 1745, Reference 'MSS. 1645 - 1652'

The drawings include, from Case or Volume, 1645, the following:

Number Year

Z.2/23 1708 'A Plan of Sterling Castle to scale of 16 Feet to an Inch and a profile of Elphinstone's Tower and French Spur to a scale of 20 Feet to an Inch. Docketted as 'Design by Capt. Drury, Anno 1708.' There are 2 copies.'

Z.2/16 No date Old Plan docketted on back 'Sterling Castle with Design'. There is no scale

Z.2/16 No date Old Plan of 'Sterling Castle' Scale 30 Feet to an Inch. Bears the name of T Drury, Fecit.

Z.2/17 1709/10 'The Royal Apartments in the Palace of Stirling Castle' Docketted on top as 'Ground Floor of the Palace at Stirling Castle' Scale 20 Feet to an Inch, dated 1709/10

Z.2/18 1719 Four Sheets of General Drawings, numbered 1 to 4, of Sterling Castle, 1719, with References. Sheet No 2 shews the Plan of the Great Hall, Section and C, to scale of 10 Feet to and Inch. It is signed by Thos Moore.

Z.2/19 1725 'A Plan of the Town and Castle of Sterling 1725', With References. Scale 250 Feet to an Inch. Bears the name of John Laye. There is also a copy.

Z.2/20 No date Another Plan of the 'Town and Castle of Sterling' to the same scale

Z.2/21 1740 'A Plan of the Town and Castle of Sterling, 1740' WIth References. There are 2 copies, both dated 1740.

Z.2/22 1741 Four sheets of General Drawings of Sterling Castle, numbered 1 to 4. Scale 10 Feet to an Inch. Date 1741.

There is also in Case or Volume, 1650, the following drawing:

Z.46/58 No date 'Sterling Castle. Plan of the Governer's Apartment(s). Scale 12 Feet to an Inch.

SCOTTISH RECORD OFFICE REFERENCE:

Erection of a stone dyke about the garden and repairs to Stirling Castle.

Copy of royal letters

1638 GD 124/11/12

Letter concerning the state of the roof of Stirling Castle. The Privy Council authorised the E. of Mar to have it repaired.

1687 GD 124/11/37

Windows of Stirling Castle. Two fragments of a warrant for the glazing of part of the castle. Sent by the Lord Commissioners of the Treasury to Sir William Bruce, Surveyor General.

1674 GD 1/51/52

Letterhead bears a small cameo motif. Letter from 'Granny' to John Murray.

No date (c.1855) GD 189/2/923

Fire at Stirling Castle in that part known as the Old Palace, in which the celebrated Douglas Room...is situated', newspaper cutting

1855 GD 189/2/1012/3

Description of the Parliament Hall of Stirling Castle. Letter from William Stirling to Sir John Clerk.

1741 GD 18/5013

Report on Stirling Castle. What James Smith has said of Holyrood is even more applicable to Stirling with the addition that the platforms and embrasures are all ruined, the half being all broke down with the flashes of powder and the others rotten, having been made only of fir deals many years ago.

1707 GD 124/15/471

Repair of the roof of Stirling Castle. Letter to the Earl of Mar from the Privy Council. He is authorised to have the roof repaired.

1687 GD 124/11/37

(For James Smith's report on Stirling Castle see under Edinburgh)

1707 GD 124/15/471

Repairs to Stirling Castle. Copy of royal letters.

1638 GD124/11/12

Repair of Stirling Castle. Letter from the Earl of Seafield to the Earl of Mar. He explains that it is difficult to obtain money for repair work.

1700 GD 124/15/207/3

Stirling, St James Fort

A plan for unbuilt fortifications proposed N of Stirling Bridge (NS79SE 2) is held in the National Archive (formerly the Public Record Office. Planned by Major Marlin Beckman in the late 17th century, the proposed fort would have rested on 'the left bank of the Fort' (Dunbar and MacIvor, 1965) the exact location of which is not known. Information from RCAHMS (D.E.), February 2004.

ANTIQ. SOC.

Topographical collection - 3 engravings dating from 18th century