. Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical, and historical . isitors. An ancient place,Banff has retained few relics of antiquity, the House ofAirlie and the Ogilvies stately Palace both havingdisappeared, the latter destroyed by General Munro inAug. 1640 ; of the Castle, as old at least as 1364,nothing is left but a scrap of the outer wall and moat,the portion in which Archbishop Sharp was born (4 May1618) having been demolished early in this present castle was built by James, sixth Earl ofFindlater and third of Seafield (1714-70)
. Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical, and historical . isitors. An ancient place,Banff has retained few relics of antiquity, the House ofAirlie and the Ogilvies stately Palace both havingdisappeared, the latter destroyed by General Munro inAug. 1640 ; of the Castle, as old at least as 1364,nothing is left but a scrap of the outer wall and moat,the portion in which Archbishop Sharp was born (4 May1618) having been demolished early in this present castle was built by James, sixth Earl ofFindlater and third of Seafield (1714-70), as a jointureresidence, and is a plain modern building, inferior ininterest to the Laird of Auchmeddens town house atthe head of the Strait Path. The old kirk is repre-sented by only one vaulted aisle, the burying-place ofthe Ogilvies, Lords Banff (1642-1803) ; and a Carmelitepriory, founded before 1324, an Observant priory, ahouse of the Knights Templars, a bedehouse for eightold women, and four pre-Reformation chapels—all haveleft hardly a vestige. To come to the modern town, Banff has a post office,. BANFF with money order, savings bank, insurance, and tele-graph departments, branches of the Union, Commercial,National, North of Scotland, and Aberdeen Town andCounty banks, a Central Savings Bank, 24 insuranceagencies, 4 hotels, a gas-light company (1831), a watercompany, a spacious market-place (laid out in 1830),4 masonic lodges, a bath-house, etc., and publishes theTuesday Liberal i?a«jfs7wVe Journal (1845). The Town-House (1796) is a plain three-storied edifice, formin-,two sides of a square, with an earlier fluted spire, lOOfeet high at the outer angle ; the County Buildings,also Grecian in style, were erected in 1871 at a cost of£7214—one-half thereof defrayed by Government,—andcontain a court room, 38 feetlong, 28J wide, and 26^ County Prison (1796) was dis-continued in 1878 ; the CountyLunatic Asylum (1865) is aTudor structure, built at a costof £12,0
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