H Gordon Slade
Biographic Data
| ID | 6051836 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H Gordon Slade |
| GIVEN NAMES | H Gordon |
| FAMILY NAME | Slade |
| SIGNATURE | SLADE H G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Berry Gardens (United Kingdom) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
St Peter's Kirk, Thurso, Caithness c 1150-1832
The church was rebuilt in the early 17th century but incorporates remains of what may have been an early 12th century Bishop's minster. AR
Lecture summaries
Five lecture summaries:Elginhaugh: A Roman fort and its environsThe greater medieval burgh kirksWilliam Elphinstone, bishop and founder of the University of AberdeenScottish graveyardsA hard-won wilderness: man and environment on Foula, Shetland and Western Faroe
The Tower and House of Drum, Aberdeenshire
On the north side of the Dee and 10 miles to the west of Aberdeen lie the Tower and House of Drum. The nearest of the great houses of the county to the city, it was, from 1323 until 1975, when it was left to the National Trust for Scotland, the home of the Irvines of Drum
The biging on Allertown
Amongst the papers in the Charter Room at Craigston Castle, Aberdeenshire, is an inventory, or appretiation, dated 1757, of a farm held by Kenneth MacCulloch on the Cromarty estate.From this inventory, and from some other surviving letters and papers, it is possible to know something of what lay behind the making of the inventory and to reconstruct the buildings themselves
Craigston and Meldrum Estates, Carriacou, 1769-1841
Midmar Castle, Aberdeenshire
A late 16th-century Z-house; the design generally is ascribed to George Bell, an ascription that may in part be incorrectThere are few houses in Aberdeenshire of the architectural quality of Midmar (NGR NJ 704 052) which can boast so meagre or so confused an history.Called at various times Migmar, Midmar, Ballogie, Grantfield and finally Midmar again, the times its name has changed being only exceeded by the number of families that have owned it …
Cluny Castle, Aberdeenshire
An investigation into the original form of this castle built c 1604, and largely replaced in the 1830s by a large mansion in the castellated style designed by John Smith
Arbuthnott House, Kincardineshire
[NO 7975]. Estate in same family since 12th century. Buildings erected round a wedge-shaped courtyard: hallhouse of c 1420 extended c 1480 when camera built opposite on earlier wall (plinth paralleled in parish kirk dedicated 1242). Additions of 16th and 17th centuries (fine ceilings) but main house rebuilt 1755 (contract reproduced). D F R
Castle Frazer
[NJ 722128]. A rectangular hall built c 1454 was converted into a Z-plan by the addition of a square and a round tower at opposite corners by Thomas Leiper c 1563-76. The house was greatly enlarged in two main phases between 1588 and 1636 (extra floors, and wings enclosing a courtyard) and a prison cell was provided. Full family history, study of the estate development, and record of 19th century renovations. R J Mercer (273-7) adds a note on the…
Carnousie—Banffshire
Craigston Castle, Aberdeenshire
The main tower (1604-7) compares with the then recently remodelled Fyvie but also has features reminiscent of Borthwick 150 years earlier; it was probably built by the Bell family of masons with modifications for the client (Urquhart). The re-entrant of the entrance front is arched over and painted to resemble a ribbed vault, there is a carved balcony above, and much carved and painted work within. Flanking wings were added in 1747-53, the surviv…
Lickleyhead Castle, Aberdeenshire
Beldorney Castle, Aberdeenshire
The castle of Beldorney stands on a sharp rise above the Deveron, almost on the thousandfoot contour, some 8 miles SW of Huntly, in the parish of Glass, and overlooking the site of the Walla Kirk (St Walloch's Kirk) (fig
The house of Fetternear
The ruins of the House of Fetternear 1 lie on the west bank of the Don a mile to the north west of Kemnay, in the SE corner of the parish of Chapel of Garioch (fig 1). HISTORYFor some eight hundred years there has been a house on this site, associated during the middle ages with the Bishops of Aberdeen and after the Reformation with a cadet branch of the FIG 1 Location of Fetternear 1 The Place Names of Aberdeenshire; William M. Alexander, The Th…
Balbithan House, Aberdeenshire
Druminnor, formerly Castle Forbes
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Druminnor, formerly Castle Forbes
The house of Fetternear
The ruins of the House of Fetternear 1 lie on the west bank of the Don a mile to the north west of Kemnay, in the SE corner of the parish of Chapel of Garioch (fig 1). HISTORYFor some eight hundred years there has been a house on this site, associated during the middle ages with the Bishops of Aberdeen and after the Reformation with a cadet branch of the FIG 1 Location of Fetternear 1 The Place Names of Aberdeenshire; William M. Alexander, The Th…
Balbithan House, Aberdeenshire
Beldorney Castle, Aberdeenshire
The castle of Beldorney stands on a sharp rise above the Deveron, almost on the thousandfoot contour, some 8 miles SW of Huntly, in the parish of Glass, and overlooking the site of the Walla Kirk (St Walloch's Kirk) (fig
Lickleyhead Castle, Aberdeenshire
Carnousie—Banffshire
Craigston Castle, Aberdeenshire
The main tower (1604-7) compares with the then recently remodelled Fyvie but also has features reminiscent of Borthwick 150 years earlier; it was probably built by the Bell family of masons with modifications for the client (Urquhart). The re-entrant of the entrance front is arched over and painted to resemble a ribbed vault, there is a carved balcony above, and much carved and painted work within. Flanking wings were added in 1747-53, the surviv…
Castle Frazer
[NJ 722128]. A rectangular hall built c 1454 was converted into a Z-plan by the addition of a square and a round tower at opposite corners by Thomas Leiper c 1563-76. The house was greatly enlarged in two main phases between 1588 and 1636 (extra floors, and wings enclosing a courtyard) and a prison cell was provided. Full family history, study of the estate development, and record of 19th century renovations. R J Mercer (273-7) adds a note on the…
Arbuthnott House, Kincardineshire
[NO 7975]. Estate in same family since 12th century. Buildings erected round a wedge-shaped courtyard: hallhouse of c 1420 extended c 1480 when camera built opposite on earlier wall (plinth paralleled in parish kirk dedicated 1242). Additions of 16th and 17th centuries (fine ceilings) but main house rebuilt 1755 (contract reproduced). D F R
Cluny Castle, Aberdeenshire
An investigation into the original form of this castle built c 1604, and largely replaced in the 1830s by a large mansion in the castellated style designed by John Smith
Midmar Castle, Aberdeenshire
A late 16th-century Z-house; the design generally is ascribed to George Bell, an ascription that may in part be incorrectThere are few houses in Aberdeenshire of the architectural quality of Midmar (NGR NJ 704 052) which can boast so meagre or so confused an history.Called at various times Migmar, Midmar, Ballogie, Grantfield and finally Midmar again, the times its name has changed being only exceeded by the number of families that have owned it …
Craigston and Meldrum Estates, Carriacou, 1769-1841
The Tower and House of Drum, Aberdeenshire
On the north side of the Dee and 10 miles to the west of Aberdeen lie the Tower and House of Drum. The nearest of the great houses of the county to the city, it was, from 1323 until 1975, when it was left to the National Trust for Scotland, the home of the Irvines of Drum
The biging on Allertown
Amongst the papers in the Charter Room at Craigston Castle, Aberdeenshire, is an inventory, or appretiation, dated 1757, of a farm held by Kenneth MacCulloch on the Cromarty estate.From this inventory, and from some other surviving letters and papers, it is possible to know something of what lay behind the making of the inventory and to reconstruct the buildings themselves
Lecture summaries
Five lecture summaries:Elginhaugh: A Roman fort and its environsThe greater medieval burgh kirksWilliam Elphinstone, bishop and founder of the University of AberdeenScottish graveyardsA hard-won wilderness: man and environment on Foula, Shetland and Western Faroe
St Peter's Kirk, Thurso, Caithness c 1150-1832
The church was rebuilt in the early 17th century but incorporates remains of what may have been an early 12th century Bishop's minster. AR
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