Architecture Notes

Event ID 791280

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NT27SW 13.00 24259 71805

NMRS REFERENCE:

PRINTROOM:

W Schomberg Scott Photograph Collection Acc no 1997/39

view looking up from the garden - 2 prints

Inglis Photograph Collection Acc no 1994/90

memorial gate (John Napier), with Merchiston Castle behind the wall

engraving ? early 19th century - view from North East

SCOTTISH NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY REFERENCE:

S M T Magazine, April 1950 - article and photograph

NATIONAL LIBRARY REFERENCE:

Watercolour sketched by Thomas Brown Adv.

Vol 88, No 71 - 1 sketch

COPIED FROM ARCHITECTURAL CATALOGUE SLIP:

30/6/1784 Carron Co Invoice

to Hon Chas Napier, merchiston Hall

A bath stove

This site was surveyed as part of the Listed Buildings Recording Programme (LBRP) for 1999-2000. The survey was carried as a result of a request from Dr Michael Bath of the University of Strathclyde to provide appropriate photographic coverage of the painted ceiling from Prestongrange Tower, dating from 1581, which has been inserted into Merchiston Tower. This ceiling, which includes representations of various grotesqueries, is one of the most unusual "Renaissance" painted ceilings to survive in Scotland.

See also M Bath, "Renaissance Decorative Painting in Scotland", Edinburgh, 2000.

Non-Guardianship Sites Plan Collection, DC28275- DC28314, 1935, 1949, 1954,1958, 1964 & 1972.