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Architecture Notes
Event ID 786260
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/786260
Architect: Sir Robert Lorimer, 1929-1930 - conversion from East Wariston House to Warriston Crematoriam.
NMRS REFERENCE:
Plans: 26 FS details for conversion to Crematorium. Lorimer and Matthew, 1928-1929.
Notes: Ultimately it was William Bonar who took up residence at East Warriston c.1833. Prior to this it was probably used as a secondary, summer, residence for his father Andrew Bonar. The pencil annotaions date from the occupancy of Lt. l. Agnew. C.1900.
Library:
Photocopy of Inventory of 1924. Original inventory in possesion of Mrs Z Ashford. Copied 1987 (Inventory by Lyon and Turnbull].
(Undated) information in NMRS.
