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- McCaigs_Tower abstract "McCaig's Tower is a prominent tower on Battery Hill overlooking the town of Oban in Argyll, Scotland. It is built of Bonawe granite taken from the quarries across Airds Bay, on Loch Etive, from Muckairn, with a circumference of about 200 metres with two-tiers of 94 lancet arches (44 on the bottom and 50 on top).The structure was commissioned, at a cost of £5,000 sterling (£500,000 at 2006 prices using GDP deflator), by the wealthy, philanthropic banker (North of Scotland Bank), John Stuart McCaig.John Stuart McCaig was his own architect. The tower was erected between 1897 and his death, aged 78 from Angina Pectoris, on 29 June 1902 at John Square House, Oban, Argyll.McCaig's intention was to provide a lasting monument to his family, and provide work for the local stonemasons during the winter months. McCaig was an admirer of Roman and Greek architecture, and had planned for an elaborate structure, based on the Colosseum in Rome. His plans allowed for a museum and art gallery with a central tower to be incorporated. Inside the central tower he planned to commission statues of himself, his siblings and their parents. His death brought an end to construction with only the outer walls completed.".
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- McCaigs_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Argyll.
- McCaigs_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Bank.
- McCaigs_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Bonawe.
- McCaigs_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Category:Folly_buildings_in_Scotland.
- McCaigs_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Category:Oban.
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- McCaigs_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Kerrera.
- McCaigs_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Lancet_(architecture).
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- McCaigs_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Lismore,_Scotland.
- McCaigs_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Loch_Etive.
- McCaigs_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Monument.
- McCaigs_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Mull.
- McCaigs_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Oban.
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- McCaigs_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Roman_architecture.
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- McCaigs_Tower wikiPageWikiLink Stonemasonry.
- McCaigs_Tower wikiPageWikiLink The_Oban_Times.
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- McCaigs_Tower wikiPageWikiLinkText "John Stuart McCaig".
- McCaigs_Tower wikiPageWikiLinkText "McCaig v University of Glasgow 1907 SC 231".
- McCaigs_Tower wikiPageWikiLinkText "McCaig's Tower".
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- McCaigs_Tower subject Category:Folly_buildings_in_Scotland.
- McCaigs_Tower subject Category:Oban.
- McCaigs_Tower subject Category:Scottish_case_law.
- McCaigs_Tower subject Category:Visitor_attractions_in_Argyll_and_Bute.
- McCaigs_Tower hypernym Tower.
- McCaigs_Tower point "56.4156 -5.4691".
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- McCaigs_Tower comment "McCaig's Tower is a prominent tower on Battery Hill overlooking the town of Oban in Argyll, Scotland.".
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