Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands

Date 2007

Event ID 962623

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

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Chanonry Point Lighthouse

(Institute Civil Engineers Historic Engineering Works no. HEW 2546)

This lighthouse was built in 1846 adjacent to the pier for the ferry across the Moray Firth from Fort George at a cost, including the light-keepers dwellings, of £3570. Its tower is 43 ft high and similar in appearance to nearby Cromarty Lighthouse. Both lighthouses were designed with revolving lights by Alan Stevenson, engineer to the Northern Lighthouse Board, and Chanonry Lighthouse exhibits his innovation of a stronger lantern in bronze with inclined astragals which minimised obscuration of the light beam. The station was automated in 1984.

R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.

Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.