[3] Preliminary design for a castle-style building, c.1791, unexecuted

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  - Castle Semple, Renfrewshire: designs for additions to an existing castle for William McDowall of Garthland, c.1791, unexecuted (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 1/186

Purpose

[3] Preliminary design for a castle-style building, c.1791, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a three-storey, thirteen-bay building over a half-sunk basement with a central rotunda with a conical roof, and corner towers with turrets with pepper-pot roofs. The entire elevation is adorned in a mixture of arched windows within relieving arches, square-headed windows, and tripartite windows, some with hood mouldings, as well as balustrading, string coursing and machicolated cornices

Scale

to a rough scale of 5/8 of an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Skech[sic] for the Front of Castle Semple for William McDowall of Girthland[sic] Esqr / N. B. Skech of the Front for the Offices / [_ _] the other side of this paper / (verso) William McDonald ^Esquire of Garthland[sic] for Castle Semple Offices

Signed and dated

c.1791
datable to c.1791

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (364x207)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Verso

Pencil sketch of a castellated tower over a central gateway with an adjoining screen wall terminating in a single-storey circular tower

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Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 6
King, 2001, p. 161
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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Drawing

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