Architecture Notes

Event ID 818122

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NMRS REFERENCE

'Bothwell Castle' also known as 'Bothwell House' is depicted on the OS 2nd Edition map (Lanarkshire, sheet XI 7, 1935). It has since been demolished. Information from RCAHMS (KD), December 2001.

Architect: James Playfair

Demolished 20th c

NMRS - Eric J Hosie - manuscript notes on stone conduit.

EXTERNAL REFERENCE

Scottish Records Office

James Playfair complains of sissension and sisloyalty among the workers. James Heard who conducted the work at Melville Castle will take over as master mason at Bothwell

1789 letter GD 151/11/32

James Playfair refers to the standard of the joiners' work at Melville Castle. 'It is not to be equalled in Britain'. He used James Heard, master mason, from this time on.

1789 GD 151/11/32

The National Gallery has a view of Bothwell Bridge by Gibson dated 1803 (Sold to a private collector, 1996 during Henry Potts Country House View Sale, Malcolm Gallery, London, 6th - 15th June 1996).

Soane Museum

Soan Museum drawings - Adam Collection

Volume 21 No. 167 - 1 print sketch elevation of lodge and gateway

Volume 51 No. 92 - 1 print plan and elevation of lodge and gateway