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Taymouth Castle. East courtyard, view from North East. Digital image of D/21757/cn

SC 765989

Description Taymouth Castle. East courtyard, view from North East. Digital image of D/21757/cn

Date 8/9/1997

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 765989

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 21757 CN

Scope and Content East courtyard from north-east, Taymouth Castle, Perth & Kinross This shows the courtyard of the east wing which contained part of the stables in the two-storeyed gabled block (left). The other buildings probably contained service rooms and the servants would have entered the castle by this courtyard, out of sight from the family in the main house. The clock in the gable with the central square bartizan (small turret) was used to keep correct time on the estate for the servants before time became standardised with the development of the railways in the late 19th century. The servants that worked in the castle would not have been particularly highly paid but they benefited from free accommodation and food. There may also have been perks for some of the senior servants such as the cook's right to leftover bones which could then be sold. The downside of working in the castle was long hours and hard work. Taymouth Castle was built for the Campbells of Breadalbane and stands on the site of Balloch Castle, which was built c.1550. Taymouth's main block, built between 1802 and 1810, was designed by James Elliot (1770-1810) and the east wing, built between 1818 and 1821, was designed by William Atkinson (c.1773-1839). The west pavilion, built in the early 18th century, was designed by William Adam (1689-1748) and was altered by James Gillespie Graham (1777-1855). The castle has important interior decoration by the Italian plasterer Francis Bernasconi and was visited by Queen Victoria in 1842. The Mactaggart family bought the estate in 1922 and converted the castle into a hotel and the deer park into a golf course. The castle was a convalescent home during World War II and has had several uses until c.1983 when it became unoccupied. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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