View of summerhouse and S wall of garden. Digital image of D 68990 CN
SC 798690
Description View of summerhouse and S wall of garden. Digital image of D 68990 CN
Date 23/8/2000
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number SC 798690
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of D 68990 CN
Scope and Content Summerhouse and walled garden, Edzell Castle, Angus, from south This view from the south, taken in 2000, shows the south-east wall of the garden, with the summerhouse at the far end. The square niches, when planted as seen here with blue and white flowering plants, display the heraldic 'fess chequy' of the Lindsay coat-of-arms. To the right is a low-relief sculpture of Geometria. The garden buildings at Edzell, with niches in the walls for flowering plants and low-relief sculptures of the cardinal virtues, the liberal arts and the planetary deities, are unique. The imagery of the sculpture derives from German models. The planting of the garden was devised by J S Richardson in the 1930s. The castle and its gardens are now in the care of Historic Scotland and are open to the public. Edzell Castle is an ancient seat of the Lindsays of Glenesk. The oldest surviving part of the complex is an early 16th-century tower, to which the 9th Earl of Crawford added a mansion in the late 16th century. His son completed the complex by adding a walled garden and bath and summer houses. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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