Publication Account

Date 2013

Event ID 978322

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

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Now an Angus Council Museum (01241 875598).

It was built in 1812 by Robert Stevenson to communicate with the Bell Rock lighthouse. Note the cast iron awnings to either side of the courtyard,

newly re-roofed in Carmyllie flagstone.

Stevenson and John Rennie completed the Lighthouse in 1811, the world’s oldest surviving lighthouse to be built on a rock that is completely under water at every tide. It is constructed of masonry cut to jigsaw shapes and pre-assembled in Arbroath, then erected on the rock with the help

of a cast iron railway that still exists on the rock, despite daily inundations. The lighthouse is 12 miles out to sea. “One of the world’s greatest civil

engineering achievements in the maritime field”

(Paxton, 2007). Ref: Paxton

M Watson, 2013