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Architecture Notes
Event ID 791416
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/791416
NS89SE 1 88893 92518
See also NS89SE 74.00 Alloa House
REFERENCE - Scottish Record Office
Repairs to the roofs of the Great Hall and the Chapel at the Castle. Letter from Col. John Erskine at Alloa to the Earl of Mar.
'I expect to get payment of your precept for the 300 [pounds] for the reparation of the Castle sometime this month so be pleased to let me have your orders about it ... The roof of the Great Hall and the Chapel will be ruined this winter if they are not mended this summer. They are good roofs and a great pity they should fall.'
1707 GD 124/15/567
Repair of Mason Work at Alloa Tower.
Ledger 1867 GD 124/17/350/33/Page 31
Repairs and alterations on Alloa Tower.
Payment for 11 new windows and for improvement of the Stair and for plasterwork.
1867 Ledger 1868 GD 124/17/350/33/Page 181
Alterations and repairs to Alloa Tower.
Letter to the Earl of Kellie from John Melvin, Architect. He will send a probably estimate for the work.
1867 GD 124/15/1815/2
Arching over the stream at Alloa Tower.
Payment of 11.5.0 [pounds] to John Melvin, Architect, for Plans, Specifications and Superintendence.
Ledger 1867 GD 125/17/350/33/Page 31
Reference - Scottish National Portrait Gallery
National Art Survey of Scotland - 2 sheets (84 & 85) (See also T T S copies)
NMRS Print Room
Rev John Sime Collection Acc No 1993/144
Written on a note amongst other items '1806 May October
23 pages long 13 Do broad
89 feet high walls 11 feet thick'
Filed under Castle Campbell, Ce/Cl
