Interior-general view of Billiard Room

Description Interior-general view of Billiard Room

Date 1903

Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England

Catalogue Number SC 736831

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 17910

Scope and Content Billiards' Room, Finlaystone House, Inverclyde (presently the home of the Chief of the Clan MacMillan and his family) Finlaystone House, originally built as a tower-house for the Dennistoun family in the late 14th century, was rebuilt and extended in 1746 by John Douglas as a handsome early Georgian mansion house for William, 12th Earl of Glencairn. In 1898-1903 the house was remodelled and refurbished in a grand style by the architect, Sir John James Burnet, for George Kidston, chairman of the Clyde Shipping Company. The interior was photographed by the architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, shortly after the refurbishment was completed in 1903. The billiards' room has an impressive, deeply compartmentalised ceiling, and a very high wooden-panelled dado above which is displayed some of Kidston's art collection. The fireplace is that of the original Georgian room, and the elaborate electric light fitting over the billiards' table has metal shades decorated with tassels. The billiards' room probably stands on the original Dennistoun foundations. The game, a popular pastime with guest parties in large country houses in the early 20th century, was one of great skill, and was played on an oblong cloth-covered table with three balls, two white and one black, struck with cues into pockets round the edge of the table. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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