Ardpatrick House. Detail of carved head on North end of main front.
SC 558801
Description Ardpatrick House. Detail of carved head on North end of main front.
Catalogue Number SC 558801
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of A 45868
Scope and Content Detail of carved head on the north end of the main front of Ardpatrick House, Argyll and Bute Ardpatrick had been the seat of the MacAlisters of Loup throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. The existing house was built in 1769 for Angus MacAlister by the master-mason John Menelaws and his brother Thomas, from Greenock. This sandstone fragment, which may have been part of a skewputt, may originate from a late medieval church, or possibly from a 16th- or 17th-century house on the site. The head is carved in high relief with almond-shaped eyes. Skews are the sloping or shaped stones which finish a gable which is upstanding above the roof. A skewputt is the carved bracket below a skew. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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