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Belgisch marmer voor een Schots kasteel!
Adolphe Joseph Boucneau heeft zijn marmerbedrijf vanaf zijn aankomst in 1844 in Pancras, Londen.
Adolphe heeft heel wat rijke klanten en doet goede zaken.
Er bestaat een erg actieve samenwerking met de marmerbedrijven in Rance en de handel verloopt via de haven van Oostende.
Adolphe Boucneau leverde ook marmer voor de bouw van een bekend Schots kasteel, Buchanan Castle.
Jim Trewin (Thanks, Jim!) vond deze informatie op
de website van The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS).
Dit is de vermelding op de pagina over Buchanan Castle:
"Marbles for the New House of Buchanan. Payment of [pounds] 52 to Adolphe Boucneau, London.
Cash Book. 1859 GD220/6/41"
Buchanan Castle ligt in het stadje Drymen in Stirlingshire, Schotland.
Het kasteel werd heropgebouwd door de 4de hertog van Montrose in 1854,
na een brand twee jaar daarvoor.
Het gebouw werd verkocht in 1925 en fungeerde korte tijd als ziekenhuis
tijdens de tweede wereldoorlog.
Later werd het dak verwijderd om belastingen te vermijden.
Hierdoor kwam het kasteel in verval.
Vandaag is het een ruïne in beheer van The National Trust of Scotland.
Het is blijkbaar nog steeds de bedoeling Buchanan Castle te restaureren.
Belgian marble for a Scottish castle!
Adolphe Boucneau worked in, or at least sold marbles to, the Buchanan Castle,
a famous house in Scotland.
Jim Trewin (Thanks, Jim!) found this information on the
website of
The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS).
This is the note on the page about the Buchanan Castle:
"Marbles for the New House of Buchanan. Payment of [pounds] 52 to Adolphe Boucneau, London.
Cash Book. 1859 GD220/6/41"
This is an other example of
Adolphe Boucneau being a marble-worker or merchand.
Adolphe also worked
for the Rothschild Family.
Buchanan Castle is a large house in Stirlingshire, Scotland,
and serves today as the seat of the Clan Graham.
Located west of the village of Drymen, the house was built by the 4th Duke of Montrose
in 1854.
The original structure, the ancestral seat of the Clan Buchanan,
had burned down in 1852, and Montrose commissioned William Burn to replace it.
Burn designed an extravagant manor in the Scottish baronial style,
enclosing an L-plan tower in a clutch of turrets, bartizans and stepped gables.
This new house would replace Mugdock Castle as the official seat of the Clan Graham.
Sold off in 1925, it briefly saw service as a hospital during the Second World War,
during which one of the patients was Rudolf Hess.
Afterwards it was de-roofed to avoid paying rates on the building, leading to the inevitable structural deterioration.
Today it remains standing to full height but progressively engulfed by trees
and plants, marooned on the perimeter of a golf course after which it is named,
and surrounded incongruously by modern housing. A perimeter fence surrounds the structure itself.
There have been several attempts to turn the Castle into a hotel but
these have all failed due to the castle being protected by The National Trust of Scotland as a historical site,
it is also on the list as one of many historical sites that need restoration.
Meer info:
- The Rothschild Archive
