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Lossiemouth, Covesea Skerries Lighthouse
Lighthouse (19th Century)
Site Name Lossiemouth, Covesea Skerries Lighthouse
Classification Lighthouse (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Halliman's Reef; Halliman's Scars; Moray Firth
Canmore ID 16732
Site Number NJ27SW 20
NGR NJ 20375 71273
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/16732
- Council Moray
- Parish Drainie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Morayshire
NJ27SW 20.00 20375 71273
Covesea Skerries Lighthouse
(Revolving white with a red sector) [NAT]
OS (GIS) AIB, May 2006.
NJ27SW 20.01 NJ 20368 71258 Principal Keeper's Cottage
NJ27SW 20.02 NJ 20360 71268 Assistant Keeper's Cottage
NJ27SW 20.03 NJ 20432 71200 Steading
(Location cited as NJ 204 713). Covesea Skerries lighthouse. Established 1846; engineer Alan Stevenson. A tall circular tower with a corbelled machicolated parapet and a circular lantern with a domed roof on a semicircular single-storey base. The Egyptian-style keepers' houses are unspoiled.
J R Hume 1977
This lighthouse was built in response to repeated demands (from 1835 onwards); a pyramid of iron pillars was erected on Halliman's Scars in 1845 and the mainland light of Covesea Skerries in 1846. The (surrounding) high walls that were originally built for shelter were lowered in 1907.
R W Munro 1979.
This lighthouse was automated in 1984 and is now in use as a holiday home.
K Allardyce and E M Hood 1986
Publication Account (2007)
Covesea Skerries Lighthouse
(Historic Engineering Works no. HEW 2529)
Following the loss of 16 vessels during a storm in the Moray Firth in November 1826 applications were made to the government for lights to be established at Covesea Skerries and Tarbat Ness but it was two decades before Covesea Skerries, one of three lighthouses on the Moray Firth, the
others being Cromarty and Chanonry, became operational in 1846. All three were designed by Alan Stevenson and Covesea Skerries was built by James Smith. The stone tower is about 118 ft high with the spiral access stair supported between the external wall and a central hollow shaft for the weights that drove the lamp machinery.
In 1845 a cast-iron beacon, based on the concept of Robert Stevenson’s at Carr Beacon in 1821 in Civil Engineering Heritage Scotland – Lowlands and Borders (7-12) but about 40 ft tall, was erected offshore to mark Halliman Skerries (see engraving). It is still in service (NJ 2140 7225).
R Paxton and J Shipway 2007
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
Publication Account (2007)
government for lights to be established at Covesea Skerries
Covesea Skerries Lighthouse
(Historic Engineering Works no. HEW 2529)
Following the loss of 16 vessels during a storm in the Moray Firth in November 1826 applications were made to the and Tarbat Ness but it was two decades before Covesea Skerries, one of three lighthouses on the Moray Firth, the others being Cromarty and Chanonry, became operational
in 1846. All thre e were designed by Alan Stevenson and Covesea Skerries was built by James Smith. The stone tower is about 118 ft high with the spiral access stair supported between the external wall and a central hollow shaft for the weights that drove the lamp machinery.
R Paxton and J Shipway 2007
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
