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 798494

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of ML 735

Scope and Content Crichton Castle, Midlothian, from east-south-east This view, taken from the east-south-east in 1905, shows the entrance front of the castle. On the right is the 14th-century tower-house, and to the left a keep-gatehouse range built in the early 15th century. This originally had an entrance in the middle of the south side, flanked by vaulted cellars, with a hall on the first floor. 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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