Low Street, Tolbooth Steeple, Banff
Description: Low Street, Tolbooth Steeple
Category: A
Date Listed: 22 February 1972
Historic Scotland Building ID: 22062
OS Grid Coordinates: 368989, 863949
Latitude/Longitude: 57.6644, -2.5214
Location: 28 B9142, Banff, Aberdeenshire AB45 1AE
Locality: Banff
County: Aberdeenshire
Country: Scotland
Postcode: AB45 1AE
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Listing Text
John Adam, 1764-7, John Marr, master mason and superintending architect. Square, 4-stage tower supporting tapering concave sided hexagonal spire. Ashlar with polished ashlar dessings. Corniced doorpiece within shallow arcade in ground floor, lunette above in lst stage, pedimented clock face in 2nd stage and round-headed louvred opening in 3rd stage. Corniced wallhead with angle ball finials; spire with oval lucarnes, gold apex ball finial and weathervane.
References:
NEW STATISTICAL ACCOUNT xiii (1836), pp 34-5. Banff Preservation Society, ROYAL AND ANCIENT BANFF (1975). Howard Colvin,
BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS, 1600-1840 (1978), p 46. William Cramond, ANNALS OF BANFF, i (1891), p 311.
Notes:
Ambiguously the Banff Town Council Minutes refer to 'Mr Adam's plan of the steeple'; this might infer James Adam rather than John, but the latter had already worked in Banff designing the Castle. Steeple abuts the S gable of the Town House.
Source: Historic Scotland
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