Basic Site Details Name: | Inveraray Castle | Town, district or village: | Inveraray | City or county: | Argyll | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | | Status: | | Grid ref: | | Notes: | There is no mention of the work by Eustace Balfour in Cosh & Lindsay's book on Inveraray. | Building Type ClassificationThe building is classified under the following categories: | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes | | Country House | | |
EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes | | 1720 | 1722 | Build/construction | Temporary pavilion. Unexecuted scheme for adding wings to old castle. | | 1744 | 1761 | Construction | | | Before 1746 | | Plans drawn up | Designs for rebuilding 'in the castle stile', as a polygonal fort with fosse and covered way. | | 1770 | 1772 | Alterations and additions | Interior rearranged | | 1772 | 1785 | Construction | Second phase | | 1777 | | Alterations and additions | Alterations to windows on main floor | | 1782 | 1789 | Refurbishment | Redecoration of principal rooms. | | 1801 | 1804 | Plans drawn up | For landscaping | | 1806 | 1807 | Plans drawn up | Various works- not executed. | | 1848 | | | Design for garden layout and new approaches | | Before 1870 | | | Garden layout modified | | 1871 | | | Glazed ironwork porch erected | | 1877 | 1879 | | Proposed remodelling; scheme reduced to bedrooms in the attics and conical roofs at the towers | | c. 1877 | | | Fire damaged centre part of house | | 1879 | 1880 | Alterations and additions | Fit out and other improvements after retirement of Anthony Salvin (then 80) and his son Anthony, due to the latter's ill-health in 1879: this probably included some restoration work to the fire-damaged Morris, Adam and Mylne interiors. | | c. 1930 | c. 1950 | | Alterations to form private apartments | | c. 1956 | | Build/construction | Bridge to SE private entrance of castle | | 1960 | 1962 | Restoration | | | 1970s | | Won award or awards | Restoration work | | 1975 | 1978 | Restoration | Restoration after fire, including metal truss roof with space for archive store and caretaker's flat. |
PeopleDesign and ConstructionThe following individuals or organisations have carried out design/construction work. Where architects or practices worked together, matching letters appear beside their names in the Partnership Group column. | | Name | Role | Partnership Group | From | To | Notes | | Alexander McGill | | M | 1720 | 1722 | Temporary pavilion of lodging for 2nd Duke of Argyll. Also unexecuted designs for adding wings to old castle. | | William Adam | | A | 1745 | 1748 | Supervised construction to designs by Roger Morris | | Roger Morris | | D | 1745 | 1760 | | | Dugal Campbell | | K | Before 1746 | | Designs for rebuilding 'in the castle stile', as a polygonal fort with fosse and covered way. | | William Mylne | | X | 1770 | 1772 | Interior rearranged | | Robert Mylne | | V | 1777 | | Alterations to windows on main floor | | Robert Mylne | | W | 1782 | 1789 | Redecoration of principal rooms | | Michael Carmichael | | T | 1799 | 1800 | Emplyed as a builder on Castle. | | Alexander Nasmyth | | U | 1801 | 1804 | Acted as landscape consultant for the 5th Duke of Argyll | | Joseph Bonomi | | S | 1806 | 1807 | Various unexecuted designs for works including Charry Park | | William Andrews Nesfield | | | 1848 | | Design for garden layout and new approaches | | Matthew Digby Wyatt | | | 1871 | | Glazed ironwork porch erected | | Anthony Salvin | | B | 1877 | 1879 | Proposed remodelling; scheme reduced to bedrooms in the attics and conical roofs at the towers | | Anthony Salvin (junior) | | B | 1877 | 1879 | Proposed remodelling; scheme reduced to bedrooms in the attics and conical roofs at the towers | | Colonel Eustace James Anthony Balfour | | J | 1879 | 1880 | Completed fit out and other improvements after retirement of Anthony Salvin (then 80) and his son Anthony, due to the latter's ill-health in 1879: this probably included some restoration work to the fire-damaged Morris, Adam and Mylne interiors. | | Ian Gordon Lindsay | | C | c. 1930 | c. 1950 | Alterations to form private apartments | | Orphoot, Whiting & Lindsay | | C | c. 1933 | 1940 | Alterations to form private apartments - continued by Lindsay under subsequent partnership | | Orphoot & Lindsay | | C | 1945 | c. 1950 | Alterations to form private apartments - begun by Lindsay under previous partnership | | Ian Gordon Lindsay | | O | c. 1956 | | Bridge to SE private entrance of castle | | David Robertson Collin | | G | 1960 | 1962 | Minor restoration - as assistant with Ian G Lindsay & Partners | | Ian G Lindsay & Partners | | G | 1960 | 1962 | Minor restoration work | | Ian Gordon Lindsay | | G | 1960 | 1962 | Minor restoration work | | John Herdman Reid | | G | 1960 | 1962 | Minor restoration work | | Crichton Walker Lang | | H | 1975 | 1978 | Restoration after 1973 fire. Job architect | | Ian G Lindsay & Partners | | H | 1975 | 1978 | Restoration after 1973 fire. | | James Ian Haig Marshall | | H | 1975 | 1978 | Restoration after fire | | John Herdman Reid | | H | 1975 | 1978 | Restoration after fire |
ClientsThe following individuals or organisations have commissioned work on this building/design: | | Name | Notes | | Argyll, 10th Duke of | Client for Orphoot, Whiting & Lindsay work | | Argyll, 11th Duke of | Client for Orphoot, Whiting & Lindsay work | | Argyll, 2nd Duke of | Client for McGill temporary pavilion | | Argyll, 3rd Duke of | Client for William Adam/Roger Morris work | | Argyll, 5th Duke | Client for Robert Mylne work and Nasmyth work | | Argyll, 6th Duke of | Bonomi works | | Argyll, 8th Duke of | Client for Salvin work and Balfour work | | Argyll, Duke of | Client for garden work |
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | Allen, Nic (ed.) | | Scottish Architects in Conservation | | | p67 | | Allibone, Jill | | Anthony Salvin: pioneer of Gothic Revival Architecture | | | | | Balfour, Frances | 1930 | Ne Obliviscaris: Dinna Forget | | | p219, 246 | | Colvin, Howard | 2008 | A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840 | | London: YUP. 4th edition | | | Cosh, Mary and Lindsay, Ian G | | Inveraray Castle with the Dukes of Argyll | | | pp32, 46, 311, 338, 339 etc (page 45 and fig 19 for Dugal Campbell designs).
pp25-6, 350-1, n62 for temporary pavilion for 2nd Duke
pp200, 208-16 (for Robert Mylne work) and p196 for William Mylne work | | RIBA | 1981 | Directory of Practices 1981 | | | | | Walker, F A | 2000 | Argyll and Bute (The Buildings of Scotland) | | | p314, 315, 320 (Salvin & Nesfield work) and work by Wyatt |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this building: | | Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes | | Courtesy of David Collin | Information sent to Dictionary | | Sent May 2013 | | Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 11552 | | | Inveraray Castle | Inveraray Castle Archives | | General Accounts | | Inveraray Castle | Inveraray Castle drawings | | Nesfield work (Copies in NMRS) | | National Monuments Record of Scotland/NMRS, RCAHMS | Ian G Lindsay Collection | | IGL/W131/1 (plan of 1806 with annotations of area to form private apartments) | | RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum | RIBA Drawings Collection | | |
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