View from SE.

Description View from SE.

Date 8/1905

Collection Papers of Dr James S Richardson, architect, archaeologist, and Principal Inspector of Ancient Monume

Catalogue Number SC 798489

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of ML 736

Scope and Content Crichton Castle, Midlothian, from south-south-east This view, taken from the south-south-east in 1905, shows the stable at Crichton Castle, with part of the 15th-century keep-gatehouse in the background. The stable is rectangular on plan with a vaulted ground floor. The upper floor was probably used as a granary. The sides are buttressed to resist the thrust of the vault. The remodelling of c.1585, for the Earl of Douglas, was grandiose, with a diamond-faceted frontage to the courtyard, and an open arcade on the ground floor, in an Italian Renaissance manner, the most remarkable work of its kind in Scotland. The castle was placed in State care (now Historic Scotland) in 1926, and is open to the public. The oldest part of Crichton Castle is a late 14th-century tower-house, with a walled enclosure on its west side. On the south-south-west side of this a keep-gatehouse was built in the early 15th century, and ranges were built on the north-north-east and east-north-east sides later in that century. The north-north-east range was rebuilt and extended in about 1585. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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