Architecture Notes

Event ID 818316

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/818316

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NMRS REFERENCE:

Drum Castle:

Owner: H.Q.Forbe's Irvine.

Ancient keep with mansion of 1619.

Architect: David Bryce. Additions and alterations by John Bryce (possibly).

NMRS Plans:

Plan, elevation and section. - 1 sheet

Photostat sheets of elevations and plans (Originals held at Drum Castle). - 9 sheets

See also: D. Bryce folio in plan drawer.

NMRS PLANS:

Drawings from Schomberg-Scott.

48 drawings lent by Mrs. Irvine to SS and then presented by him to NMRS, August 1979. Comprising:

1) An early design for a walled garden, c. 1800.

48) An antiquarian survey of the old tower, c. 1876.

2-4) A survey of the Castle as existing in the early 1870's (or before).

5-7) A proposal to build a baronial screen to the entrance court and rebuild the entrance front to provide a new principal stair and entrance hall and corridors than 5-7 (David Bryce) 14.3.1876.

43)A single survivor of the working drawings for building the screen wall suggested in 5-7 (David Bryce) 14.3.1876.

8) A more ambitious scheme for a new principal stair and entrance hall and corridors than 5-7 which suggests that the screen No.43 was built in 1876 (John Bryce) February 1877.

9-35) Remains of working drawings (fragmentary) for new entrance front and stair as built 26th November 1878 - late 1880 (John Bryce). A compromise between David Bryce's and John Bryce, Feb 1877 proposal which preserved the old stair tower.

38-42) Designs for fitting up after alterations.

44, 46, 47) Drawing room chimneypiece November 1880.

45) A later plan for creating a bathroom. January 1893 (John Bryce).

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

Drawings stored at 15 Pitstruan Place, Aberdeen. - Plans, elevations and details.

Measured and drawn by Frances J.H. Mercer, 1932.

See A.G.R. McK file.

Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

SMT Magazine, September 1950 - article and phototgraphs.