View of Crichton Castle from W

Description View of Crichton Castle from W

Date c. 1950

Collection H D Wyllie

Catalogue Number SC 798496

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of ML 1225

Scope and Content Crichton Castle, Midlothian, from west This view, taken from the west in the 1950s, shows the castle in the centre, with the stable to the right, looking across the River Tyne. The left section of the north-west face of the castle is part of the 1575 range, and the right section, with the tower, is late 15th century. To the right is the 15th-century keep-gatehouse. 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 25

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