Church Street Arcade Entrance, New Market, Academy Street, Inverness

Public Markets and arcade to Academy Street, Matthews and

Lawrie, 1869-70. Italianate, ashlar. Front to Academy

Street, single storey 3-bay front, tripartite round-headed

arched Corinthian columned entrance with carved animal head

keystones, channelled angle piers, bracketted cornice and

balustrade surmounted by urns; outer bays, lower, each with

one round-headed window, cornice and balustrade surmounted

by urn. Arcade, brick, arcaded shopfronts, clerestory

windows, timber roof with cast-iron principals. Front to

close off Church Street: tower, snecked rubble, round-arched

entrance with oculus above and pediment. Markets altered

and extended, Burgh Surveyor, 1890 south-west market hall

timber and glass double-pitched roof supported on cast-iron

columns; central hall, square plan, timber and glass roof with

cast-iron principals. Arcade to Union Street, Ross and Macbeth,

1. Arcade to Queensgate, Duncan Cameron, 1897, segmental

headed arch at each end, north part of arcade, shopfronts with

polished granite pilastrade, elaborate frieze and egg-and

dart cornice, cast-iron and fully glazed roof, south part

of arcade pilastered shopfronts, each originally of 3

round-headed arches; timber and glass roof.