Monument To Dugald Buchanan, Strathyre is a Grade C listed building in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 May 2006. Monument. 1 related planning application.
Monument To Dugald Buchanan, Strathyre
- WRENN ID
- ghost-pier-moon
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 May 2006
- Type
- Monument
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Loch Lomond And Trossachs National Park Planning Authority
- Gothic monument to the Gaelic poet Dugald Buchanan standing on a circular base and enclosed by cast-iron railings. The lower part of the monument is composed of 4 short columns clustered around a central pillar: the column shafts are in red marble and the tops of the capitals were once small fountain bowls, but have been filled in. Above are 4 cusped-arch niches (one to each face) containing grey and red marble panels inscribed in Gaelic and English. The upper part of the monument is pyramidal and topped by a decorative wrought-iron finial. There is some decorative carving around the niches. A decorative monument to an important local poet (see Notes), occupying a prominent position on the main road through Strathyre.
Materials: sandstone with some red and grey marble.
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