Oblique aerial view of Crichton Castle.

Description Oblique aerial view of Crichton Castle.

Date 1985

Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography

Catalogue Number A 40664 CN

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 798481, SC 1680440

Scope and Content Aerial view of Crichton Castle, Midlothian This aerial view of Crichton Castle from the north-north-east was taken in 1985, and shows the north range in the foreground, built in about 1575. Above it to the left is the 14th-century tower, and above that the 15th-century keep-gatehouse. In the left background is the stable block. 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.

Medium Colour negative

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