View of castle from south west Digital image of D 68842 CN

Description View of castle from south west Digital image of D 68842 CN

Date 23/8/2000

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 798704

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 68842 CN

Scope and Content Edzell Castle, Angus, from south-west This view from the south-west, taken in 2000, shows the entrance front of the castle, with the 16th-century tower-house to the right, and the L-plan later 16th-century mansion, with its corner tower. To the right of the tower-house is the south-west wall of the garden. 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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