General view of front of Gyles House, Pittenweem, with motorbike.

Description General view of front of Gyles House, Pittenweem, with motorbike.

Date 7/1963

Collection Records of the Scottish National Buildings Record, Edinburgh, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 2083479

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of F 1449

Scope and Content Recorded on the mounted print: 'Shire: Fife. Place: Pittenweem. Building: The Gyles, Eastshore. Photographer: F.B. Date: July 1963'. Front of Gyles House, The Gyles, Pittenweem, Fife Gyles House was built in 1626 and is part of The Gyles, a group of 17th- to 18th-century buildings standing on the headland at the east end of the harbour. It was the home of the Captain Cook who took King Charles II to exile in France in 1651. This shows the rear of Gyles House after it was restored in 1962 by Wheeler and Sproson for the National Trust for Scotland. King Charles II, an exile since the defeat and death of his father, King Charles I, returned to Scotland in 1650 to lead a Presbyterian uprising. He was defeated at Dunbar in 1650 and at Worcester in England in 1651. He then fled to France. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference MW/BR/PIT/10

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