Architecture Notes
Event ID 818120
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/818120
NMRS REFERENCE:
Dundee, Nethergate, City Churches, St Mary's Tower or The Steeple
(late 15thc)
Architect: See under john Mylne 1643 in architect's file.
Restored 1872 by Sir G G Scott.
NMRS/Simpson & Brown photographs.
Box 8 album no 117
1989 exterior and many interior views.
EXTERNAL REFERENCE
Dundee District Council Archives and Records Centre.
Dundee Town Council
Town Clerk's Miscellanea.
Bundle 230 St Mary's Church Tower (Old Steeple)
230/1 Report by George Gilbert Scott as to St Mary's Church Tower, 24 Aug. 1870.
230/2 Old Steeple; general conditions and specifications of works to be done in the restoration of floors, 1872.
230/3 General specifications of works required to be done in the restoration of the Tower c. 1871.
230/4 Schedule of prices for work proposed to be one in the restoration of the Tower, Alex Duncan, 1871.
230/5 Offer by Rob Laing, builder, for masonwork for restoration, June 1871.
230/6 R.I.B.A. Advice to promoters and hints to workmen on the conservation of ancient monuments (printed), 1865.
230/7 Building Contract (printed:blank) c. 1871
230/8 Report by R Matheson, Esq. on Old Steeple, 25 Oct, 1853. (copy dated 28 June 1870).
230/9 Ground plans and elevations of Old Steeple, nos 1-3 c. 1871 10 feet to 1 inch: ink and watercolour on linen.
230/10 Old Steeple scaffolding, contract between Provost Yeaman and Rob Lickley, 1871.
230/11 Specifications for erecting scaffolding, 1871.
230/12 Offer by geo. haggart for restoration of Old Steeple, July 1871.
230/13 Schedule of prices for work proposed to be done in the restoration of the Tower, Sturrock and Sherriff, 1871.
230/14 Statement of work measured with Mr Sherriff, 23 Oct 1871 to 6 May 1872.
230/15 Minute of Agreement between provost Yeaman and Dav. Kidd & Son, 1872
230/16 Old Steeple restoration; contract between Provost Yeaman and Messrs Sturrock & Sherriff, 1871
Received from J D Boyd Esq, Curator, Dundee Museums and Art Galleries, Albert Square, Dundee for the transfer to the Archive and Record Centre, City Chambers, City Square, Dundee, the items listed below:
GD/Mus 24 MAPS AND PLANS
ST MARY'S TOWER 'OLD STEEPLE' DUNDEE
Plans, sections and elevations of St Mary's Tower (watermark 1889)
(Town Engineer?)
24/1 Ground plan of Tower
3/8 inch to 1 foot ink and watercolour on paper
(1plan; fragile)
24/2 Cross section of Tower
3/16 inch to 1 foot ink and watecolour on paper
(1plan; torn, fragile)
24/3 Elevation of part of balconies and perspective of staircase
1/2 inch to 1 foot ink and watercolour on paper
(1plan)
24/4 Elevation of doorway and tracery windows to South Lindsay Street
1/2 inch to 1 foot ink and watercolour on paper.
(1plan)
