Architecture Notes

Event ID 831873

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NJ26SW 119.01 2110 6282 Watching Brief

NMRS REFERENCE:

Sculptor: Thomas Goodwillie, 1853.

DATES 1839 erected.

1855 statue place on top

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

Elgin Courant, 15 Feb 1839

Report of laying of foundation stone of Gordon Monument, Ladyhill. Elgin

'Monument is of a design gratuitously furnished by Mr Burn, architect, Edinburgh. It is a Tuscan column 90' in height exclusive of the monument which is to be placed at the top of it. Its diameter above the base shaft is 6'90". Within there is a spiral staircase leading to the top of the column.'