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Towns in Argyll and Bute: Oban, Inveraray, McCaig's Tower, Dunoon, Helensburgh, Campbeltown, Tobermory, Mull, Tarbert, Argyll and Bute

Towns in Argyll and Bute: Oban, Inveraray, McCaig's Tower, Dunoon, Helensburgh, Campbeltown, Tobermory, Mull, Tarbert, Argyll and Bute


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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Oban, Inveraray, McCaig's Tower, Dunoon, Helensburgh, Campbeltown, Tobermory, Mull, Tarbert, Argyll and Bute, Rothesay, Bute, MV Clansman, MV Isle of Mull, MV Eigg, Garelochhead, MV Lord of the Isles, Maiden Island, Oban Distillery, West Highland Yachting Week, Oban Hydro, Dunollie Castle, Oban and District. Excerpt: McCaig's Tower is a prominent folly on the hillside (called Battery Hill) overlooking Oban in Argyll, Scotland. It is built of Bonawe granite taken from the quarries across Airds Bay, on Loch Etive, from Muckairn, with a circumference of about 200 metres with two-tiers of 94 lancet arches (44 on the bottom and 50 on top). The structure was commissioned, at a cost of 5,000 sterling ( 500,000 at 2006 prices using GDP deflator), by the wealthy, philanthropic banker (North of Scotland Bank), John Stuart McCaig. John Stuart McCaig was his own architect. The tower was erected between 1897 and his death, aged 78 from Angina Pectoris, on 29 June 1902 at John Square House, Oban, Argyll. McCaig's intention was to provide a lasting monument to his family, and provide work for the local stonemasons during the winter months. McCaig was an admirer of Roman and Greek architecture, and had planned for an elaborate structure, based on the Colosseum in Rome. His plans allowed for a museum and art gallery with a central tower to be incorporated. Inside the central tower he planned to commission statues of himself, his siblings and their parents. His death brought an end to construction with only the outer walls completed. John Stuart McCaig (sometimes styled as John Stuart McCaig of Muckairn and Soroba) was the second son of Malcom McCaig (a farmer) and Margaret Stewart (6 June 1796-2 August 1865) and was born at Clachan, Isle of Lismore, Argyll, Scotland on 11 July 1823 and baptised at St Moluag's Cathedral, Lismore. He...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781156640784
  • Publisher: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 24
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Weight: 64 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1156640784
  • Publisher Date: 26 Jul 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Oban, Inveraray, McCaig's Tower, Dunoon, Helensburgh, Campbeltown, Tobermory, Mull, Tarbert, Argyll and Bute
  • Width: 189 mm


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