A specialist team has started the first survey of an estate conceived by an Earl which combined industrial innovation with ornamental design.
A SPECIALIST team has started the first survey of an estate conceived by an Earl which combined industrial innovation with ornamental design.
It also provided energy for mills and breweries, powered a large wheel for draining coal mines and created a series of sluices on the foreshore of the Forth estuary to deepen Alloa’s harbour.Work started on the scheme in 1701 and was almost complete when Mar was exiled for backing the failed Jacobite Rising of 1715.
Mar’s idea for the dam and aqueduct was inspired by schemes the eminent landscapist Alexander Edward had seen in France and reported on to Mar. Margaret Stewart, lecturer in Architectural History at Edinburgh College of Art, says: “The Mar estate is a landscape of international significance but, inexplicably, no integrated survey of it has ever been undertaken by any official body in Scotland.
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