Archaeology Notes

Event ID 705981

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS88NE 4 89018 88922

NS88NE 24.00 88490 89195 Dunmore Park

NS88NE 40 88893 88537 The Pineapple

NS88NE 66 88993 88906 St Andrew's Episcopal Church and Churchyard (Dunmore Chapel)

NS88NE 67 89244 88559 The Parsonage

(NS 89018 88922) Tower (NR)

OS 6" map (1967)

A rectangular tower measuring 9.0m x 7.4m, the ground floor of which has been used as a burial vault for the family of the Earls of Dunmore. Turret, battlements, doors and windows appear to be modern, the remainder of the fabric apparently being original.

Visited by OS (JLD) 17 October 1953

Dunmore Tower is oblong on plan and measures 29'9" by 24'1" over walls 5'9" thick on three sides, but only 5' thick on the E. Rubble- built, it stands 57' high to the top of the parapet, and contains four storeys, each of a single room. Originally built in the early 16th century, it has been much altered and patched, mostly in the 19th century, though some alterations appear to have been made in the 17th century. The ground-floor room is now the family burial place of the Earls of Dunmore. This tower, at first known as Elphinstone Tower, was the principal messuage of the barony of Elphinstone, erected in 1504. In 1754, it was acquired by John, 4th Earl of Dunmore, who gave his own name both to the tower and the estate four years later.

RCAHMS 1963, visited 1955

Generally as described, although the NW angle was blown down by strong winds about 1968.

Visited by OS (DS) 30 January 1974.