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Architecture Notes
Event ID 839024
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/839024
This B-listed site was recorded as part of the Listed Buildings Recording Programme for 2003-04.
Situated on the eminence of Cluny Hill in Grant Park, to the south of the center of Forres, it consists of a neo-Gothic octagonal tower of four storeys. Rising to a height of some 21 metres and some 8 metres across, it is built of harled rubble. The margins and the corbelled parapet with spout gargoyles are built of dressed stone. The main embrasures are of simple pointed form. Access to the upper floors is provided by a central spiral staircase.
One of the earliest monuments in Britain to Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson (d.1805), its foundation stone was laid on 26 August 1806 by James Brodie of Brodie. Paid for by some 270 public subscribers who raised £610, it was completed in 1812. Fixed to the exterior are inscribed panels which commemorate the battles of the Nile (1798), Copenhagen (1801) and Trafalgar (1805) and that the tower was built by public subscription. Its architect, Charles Stewart, is recorded in an inscription on the spandrel over the main doorway.
Information from RCAHMS
(NMC) 2004
