Larger versions of these images are located at the foot of the page. Basic Site Details Name: | Hamilton Palace | Town, district or village: | Hamilton | City or county: | Lanarkshire | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | | Status: | | Grid ref: | | Notes: | The bronze atlantes at the main stair were first modelled by Thomas Campbell in 1839-40 and then by Bernard Gabriel Seurre for the founder Louis-Claude-Ferdinand Soyer. They were installed in 1842. | Building Type ClassificationThe building is classified under the following categories: | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes |  | Palace | | |
EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes |  | 1685 | | Plans drawn up | Plan of garden drawn up. |  | 1693 | | Build/construction | |  | 1736 | 1737 | Build/construction | Termple on the bowling green |  | 1822 | 1828 | Alteration/conversion | Rebuilding of north front, interpreting the designs by an Italian architect, Francesco Saponieri. |  | 1842 | | Design exhibited | Design for alterations |  | c. 1920 | | Destruction/demolition | |
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 |  | James Smith | Architect, Engineer | H | 1683 | 1701 | |  | Alexander Edward | Architect | G | c. 1685 | | Plan of garden drawn up as assistant to Sir William Bruce. |  | Tobias Bachop, Bauchop or Baak | Mason | F | 1692 | | Was recommended to the 3rd Duke of Hamilton but James Smith was given the job. |  | William Adam | Architect | B | 1736 | 1737 | Temple on the bowling green.
Adam was employed at Hamilton Palace from 1727 to 1743, making plans for the gardens and designing the church and dog-kennel, but appears to have been responsible only for minor repairs and alterations to the Palace itself, for the enlargement of which he made an unexecuted design illustrated in 'Vitruvius Scoticus'. |  | David Hamilton | Architect | C | 1822 | 1828 | Rebuilding of north front, interpreting the designs by an Italian architect, Francesco Saponieri. |  | Henry Edmund Goodridge | Architect | | 1842 | | Alterations |  | William Burn | Architect | A | 1856 | 1857 | Minor alterations
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ClientsThe following individuals or organisations have commissioned work on this building/design: | | Name | Notes |  | Hamilton, 10th Duke of | Client for David Hamilton work |  | Hamilton, 11th Duke of | For Burn alterations |  | Hamilton, 3rd Duke of | Client for James smith work |
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes |  | Adam, William | 1820 | Vitruvius Scoticus | | | Plate 8 |  | Colvin, H and Harris, J (eds.) | 1970 | The Country Seat | | | Chapter entitled 'Kinross House' pp65-69 by Alexander Edward |  | Colvin, Howard | 2008 | A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840 | | London: YUP. 4th edition | |  | Evans, Godfrey | | The 10th Duke of Hamilton's Commissioners to French Founders and Sculptors | 18 | Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History | |  | Frew, John and Jones, David (eds) | 1988 | Aspects of Scottish Classicism | | St Andrews | Chapter by James Macaulay 'The Seventeenth Century Genesis of Hamilton Palace'. |  | Gow, Ian | 2006 | Scotland's Lost Houses | | London: Aurum Press | pp26-41 |  | Graves, Algernon | 1905 | The Royal Academy of Arts: a complete dictionary of exhibitors and their works… | 1905-6 | London: Graves and Bell | 1842, no 1036 |  | Marshall, Rosalind K | 1973 | The Days of Duchess Anne | | | Chapter 9 for James S,mith work. Also p193 |  | New Statistical Account of Scotland | | New Statistical Account of Scotland | | | vi, p271-2 |
Periodical ReferencesThe following periodicals contain references to this building: | | Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes |  | Ancient Monuments Society Transactions | 2003 | 47 | | p7. Article by Giles Worsley |  | Country Life | 7 June 1919 | | | |  | Country Life | 21 June 1919 | | | |  | Country Life | 14 August 1919 | | | |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this building: | | Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes |  | Hamilton Muniments, Lennoxlove | Hamilton Muniments Drawings | TD 80/100/21 | |  | National Monuments Record of Scotland/NMRS, RCAHMS | NMRS Architects Index | | |
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