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Paisley, General

Burgh (Medieval), Town (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Paisley, General

Classification Burgh (Medieval), Town (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 43175

Site Number NS46SE 48

NGR NS 48465 63996

NGR Description Centred NS 48465 63996

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Renfrewshire
  • Parish Paisley (Renfrew)
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Renfrew
  • Former County Renfrewshire

Archaeology Notes

NS46SE 48 centred 48465 63996

Location formerly cited as NS 48 64.

Erected burgh of barony in 1488; burgh of regality, 1587. Approached erection as a royal burgh in 1658-66.

G S Pryde 1965.

Architecture Notes

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

Scottish Records Office

Use of beer duty to subidise public building.

Memorial asks for retention of the duty as certain building measures were necessary. Among these are:

1. Building a new meal market.

2. Enlarging the prison and courthouse

3. Building a grammar school.

[N.D. Late 18th century.] GD 51/16/97

NMRS REFERENCE

Paisley - House for R. King Bell, Dyer

Architect: John Hutchison

Paisley - House for Wiliam Rowat, St. Margaret's

Architect: John Hutchison 1889

Paisley - Chapel House

Architect: Balfour Abercrombie, ( alts & adds)

Paisley - Coffee Room

Architect: Peter Nicholson c. 1805

EXTERBAL REFERENCE

Courtauld Institute

Sculpture and Statue Negs

PAISLEY open air statuary

John Mossman Alexander Wilson 1013/24(3)

John Mossman G.A. Clark 1013/24(5)

W.B. Rhind Thos Coats Meml 1013/25(6)

W.B. Rhind " Existimarie 1013/26(14)

W.B. Rhind " Perserverentia 1013/26 (15)

W.B. Rhind " Prudentia 1013/26 (16)

W.B. Rhind " Liberalitas 1013/26 (17)

W.B. Rhind Sir Peter Coats Meml 1013/25 (7)

W.B. Rhind " Agriculture 1013/27 (18)

W.B. Rhind " Art 1013/27 (19)

W.B. Rhind " Education 1013/27 (20)

W.B. Rhind " Industry 1013/27 (21)

A.H. Shannon Mon Sir Wm Dunn 1013/25 (8)

D.W. Stevenson Robt Tannahill 1013/24 (4)

F.J. Williamson Queen Victoria 1013/25 (9); (10); (11);

1013/26 (13); (12).

S.M.T. Magazine. Nov. 1934 - article.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

Activities

Aerial Photography (1935 - 1938)

An collection of aerial photographs taken by Andrew P Hunter from 1935 to 1938. Digitised by Andrew B Wilson in 2008.

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