Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

NAPOLEON PILLAR CARSEBRIDGE HOUSELB21024

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
01/06/1974
Supplementary Information Updated
24/08/2023
Local Authority
Clackmannanshire
Planning Authority
Clackmannanshire
Burgh
Alloa
NGR
NS 89679 93785
Coordinates
289679, 693785

Description

An antique Roman Doric column about 10 feet tall with a dome cap on top of an abacus (flat slab), probably dating from the Roman occupation of Egypt.

A plate reads: This Pillar / was conquest of Napoleon at Grand Cairo in Egypt / in the year 1798 / and / having been captured by the Allies en route to France / was sent by them to Florence / where it was bought by my father C E Dede / and forwarded to / Altona Schleswig Holstein / Fraulein Dede, Altona den 14 ten August 1852. Above Pillar presented to J[ohn] B[ald] Harvey / by Miss Dede.

Statement of Special Interest

In 1798 John Francis Erskine, Earl of Mar (1741-1825) granted the lease of a field to John Bald Esquire to build and operate a distillery near the Carse Bridge in Alloa (The Scotch Malt Whisky Society). Carsebridge Distillery opened in 1799.

The Ordnance Survey Name Book of 1861-62 describes Carsebridge House as a neat and substantially built two-storey house with single-storey offices attached and the property of the Earl of Mar (OS1/8/1/31). The house and estate appear to have leased to the Bald family throughout much of the 19th century and early-20th century.

John Bald Harvey (1831-1917) was a distiller, joint-tenant and occupant of Carsebridge Distillery. He was a tenant of Schawpark House (Scottish Post Office Directories). His sons, John Bald Harvey Junior (1865-?) and James Harvey (1867-1957), were a distiller and brewer respectively, and are recorded as living at Carsebridge House in the 1901 census. It is unclear when the pillar was erected at Carsebridge.

Listed building record updated in 2023.

References

Bibliography

Canmore: http://canmore.org.uk/ CANMORE ID 141908

Maps

Ordnance Survey (surveyed 1861-62, published 1865) Perth and Clackmannanshire – CXXXIX.4 (Alloa). 25 inches to the mile. 1st Edition. Southampton: Ordnance Survey.

Ordnance Survey (revised 1899, published 1900) Clackmannanshire CXXXIX.4. 25 inches to the mile. 2nd Edition. Southampton: Ordnance Survey.

Ordnance Survey (revised 1920, published 1922) Clackmannanshire CXXXIX.4. 25 inches to the mile. Later Edition. Southampton: Ordnance Survey.

Ordnance Survey (revised 1957, published 1958) National Grid map – NS8993NE-B. 25 inches to the mile. Southampton: Ordnance Survey.

Online sources

Ancestry. 1901 Census Transcription for John B Harvey Jr, at https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/794605:1101 [accessed 10/05/2023].

Ancestry. 1901 Census Transcription for James Harvey, at https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/794606:1101 [accessed 10/05/2023].

Buildings at Risk Register for Scotland (BARR). Carsebridge House Napoleon Pillar, Carsebridge Road, Alloa, at https://www.buildingsatrisk.org.uk/details/1117588 [accessed 10/05/2023].

Ordnance Survey Name Book (1861-62) Clackmannanshire volume 1, OS1/8/1/31, p.31, at https://scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/digital-volumes/ordnance-survey-name-books/clackmannanshire-os-name-books-1861-1862/clackmannanshire-name-books-volume-1/31 [accessed 10/05/2023].

Scottish Post Office Directories (1877-87). Lothian's annual register for the County of Clackmannan, p.37, at https://digital.nls.uk/directories/browse/archive/89725475?mode=transcription [accessed 10/05/2023].

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society. Carsebridge, at https://smws.com/carsebridge-distillery [accessed 10/05/2023].

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