View of Crichton Castle from W
SC 798495
Description View of Crichton Castle from W
Date c. 1950
Collection H D Wyllie
Catalogue Number SC 798495
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of ML 1224
Scope and Content Crichton Castle, Midlothian, from west This view, taken from the west in the 1950s, shows the 15th-century keep-gatehouse on the right, and the late 15th-century kitchen range to its right. On the far left is part of the 1585 range, with its corbelled corner turret. This photograph emphasises the defensive setting of the castle on a rocky hillock. 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.
External Reference HW 24
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Attribution: © Courtesy of HES. Photographs by H D Wyllie, photographer, Edinburgh, Scotland
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