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M317 Design for a bandstand, the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle

Address: Barnard Castle DL12 8NP
Date: 1911–12
Client: Bowes Museum
Authorship:

(Office)

1906: 23 March: Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh receive a payment of £21 for 'Bowes Museum adjudication'. 1 John Keppie had been invited by curator Owen Scott to select designs for improvements to the museum. 2

1911: Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh invited to submit a design for a new bandstand. 3

1912: Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh exhibit a drawing for a 'band pavilion' for the Bowes Museum at the Royal Scottish Academy. 4
4 May: Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh receive a payment of £42 for 'Bowes Museum Barnard Castle'. 5

Notes:

1: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: John Honeyman & Keppie / Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh / Keppie Henderson cash book, 1889–1917, GLAHA 53079, p. 99.

2: Bowes Museum Trustees minutes, 15 March 1906. Information supplied by curator Howard Coutts, 26 July 2012.

3: Information supplied by curator Howard Coutts, 26 July 2012. The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: John Honeyman & Keppie / Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh / Keppie Henderson cash book, 1889–1917, GLAHA 53079, p. 149.

4: Royal Scottish Academy, 1912 (468).

5: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: John Honeyman & Keppie / Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh / Keppie Henderson cash book, 1889–1917, GLAHA 53079, p. 149.

'Mackintosh Architecture' led by The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council; with additional support from The Monument Trust, The Pilgrim Trust, and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art; and collaborative input from Historic Scotland and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland.