Oblique aerial view of Crichton Castle.

Description Oblique aerial view of Crichton Castle.

Date 1985

Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography

Catalogue Number A 40667 CN

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 798482, SC 1680443

Scope and Content Aerial view of Crichton Castle, Midlothian This aerial view of Crichton Castle from the east was taken in 1985. The keep-gatehouse is to the left, with the 14th-century tower to the right in the foreground. On the north side of the courtyard is a later 15th-century block, and to its right is the elaborate 1585 range, with its diamond-faceted internal elevations. 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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