General view from WSW showing WSW front
SC 769831
Description General view from WSW showing WSW front
Date 1985
Catalogue Number SC 769831
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of C 7174 CN
Scope and Content Glamis Castle, Angus, from west-south-west This shows the west wing (left) with its round tower, battlement at roof level and small corbelled corner turret. The east wing on the right has similar features but has been extended and also has three armorial panels below the second-floor windows beside the stair-tower of the main block. The main block, with its profusion of corbelled round turrets, has several carved armorial panels surmounting several windows, and its stair-tower has a clock and a battlemented parapet. By the 19th century the ground floor of the west block would have contained cellars, with rooms that the family used for entertaining on the first floor, and bedrooms on the second floor. The ground and second floors of the east block had similar uses but the first floor contained 'my lady's room' and a family bedroom. The top floor and attic of the main block mainly contained bedrooms and the clock was used to keep correct time on the estate before time become standardised with the development of the railways in the late 19th century. Glamis Castle was built c.1427 as a tower-house and is the hereditary seat of the Earl of Strathmore. The castle has had many additions since 1435, and was remodelled between 1606 and 1626 before finally being modernised in the late 20th century by the architect James Dunbar-Nasmith. Patrick Lyon, 3rd Earl of Kinghorne, was responsible for major renovations between 1669 and 1690, which included raising the tower and building the west wing and north-east corner wing containing the chapel. Other major works have included the demolishing of the west wing in 1774 and its rebuilding between 1790 and 1800, as well as the east wing's rebuilding in 1891. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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