Bell Rock Lighthouse
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The Bell Rock Lighthouse, off the coast of Angus, Scotland, is the world's oldest surviving sea-washed lighthouse. It was built between 1807 and 1810 by Robert Stevenson on the Bell Rock in the North
Bell Rock Lighthouse with reef just visible
Engraving of the lighthouse under construction in 1809, next to the temporary beacon that was constructed alongside it to accommodate the workers and serve as a temporary lighthouse.
Watercolour of the lighthouse by J. M. W. Turner (1819), Scottish National Gallery
HMS Argyll
Robert Stevenson was a Scottish civil engineer, and designer and builder of lighthouses. His works include the Bell Rock Lighthouse.
Bell Rock Lighthouse
…Bell Rock Lighthouse, off the coast of Angus, Scotland, is the world's oldest surviving sea-washed lighthouse. It was built between 1807 and 1810 by Robert Stevenson on the Bell Rock (also known as Inchcape) in the North Sea, 11 miles (18 km) east of the Firth of Tay. Standing 35 metres (115 ft) tall, its light is…
Bust of Stevenson by Samuel Joseph, commissioned 19 July 1824 by the Northern Lighthouse Board. Illustration from the Biographical Sketch of the Late Robert Stevenson: Civil Engineer by his son Alan Stevenson, 1851
1 Baxters Place, Edinburgh
Robert Stevenson is remembered on his grandfather's grave in the churchyard of Glasgow Cathedral, though he was buried in Edinburgh
Stevenson's gravestone, New Calton Burial Ground, Edinburgh