View from South of 16th Century tower
A 54968
Description View from South of 16th Century tower
Date 1975
Collection Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England
Catalogue Number A 54968
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 537410
Scope and Content The tower-house, Lauriston Castle, Cramond Road South, Edinburgh Lauriston Castle, a late 16th-century tower-house built for Sir Archibald Napier, stands in wooded grounds with uninterrupted views over the Firth of Forth. The house was extended in the 19th century, and was bequeathed to the nation in 1926. The four-storeyed tower-house, with its two-storeyed corner turrets and huge wall-head chimney, forms the main block of the castle. The turrets have gun-loops, and their tall roofs were added by William Burn in 1827. The off-centre door dates from c.1650. John Law, the 'great financier' was born in the tower in 1671, and rose to become the Controller-General of the French finances. His banking scheme crashed in 1720 and, as ruin in France was widespread, he fled to Venice where he died in poverty in 1729. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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