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Latitude: 57.4775 / 57°28'39"N
Longitude: -4.2256 / 4°13'32"W
OS Eastings: 266647
OS Northings: 845218
OS Grid: NH666452
Mapcode National: GBR H8YY.TBN
Mapcode Global: WH4GH.293Z
Plus Code: 9C9QFQHF+2Q
Entry Name: Town Steeple, 2 Bridge Street, Inverness
Listing Name: 2 Bridge Street and Church Street, Town Steeple
Listing Date: 21 May 1971
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 379677
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB35153
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200379677
Location: Inverness
County: Highland
Town: Inverness
Electoral Ward: Inverness Central
Traditional County: Inverness-shire
Tagged with: Steeple
Alexander Laing following design by William Sibbald, 1791.
Classic square-plan, ashlar. 3-storey tower,
round-arched openings to Bridge Street ground floor,
Venetian windows with blind centre light and apron in Bridge
Street and Church Street fronts at 1st floor, round-arched
window rising into open pediment on each front, at 2nd
floor, 1st floor band course. Lower belfry stage, Doric
pilasters at angles and framing round-headed keyblocked
louvred openings, with subsidiary anta pilastrade threaded
through entablature. Clock stage, at each front clock face
beneath swag and broken pediment advances from panelled
angle piers surmounted by swagged urns. Upper belfry stage
octagonal with Ionic angle pilasters N, S, W, and E
fronts having single round-headed openings, NE, NW, SE and SW
fronts containing 2-storey blind openings, corniced at lower
storey. Octagonal base to spire with blind vents. Octagonal
spire surmounted by ball and weathercock.
A group with 4-14 Bridge Street. The design was furnished by
Alexander Laing who supervised the building but the authorship
of the design is credited in THE STATISTICAL ACCOUNT (1793)
to Sibbald.
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