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View of North Door (prior to rebuilding).

F 3319/22

Description View of North Door (prior to rebuilding).

Date 1953

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

Catalogue Number F 3319/22

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 366923

Scope and Content Detail of carved entrance doorway, Culross Abbey House, Fife A Cistercian monastery was founded at Culross by Malcolm, Earl of Fife, in the 13th century. The town became a burgh of barony under the Abbot of Culross in 1490, and was made a royal burgh in 1592. Abbey House stands beside the Abbey overlooking the town. Originally built by Lord Edward Bruce of Kinloss in 1608, it was enlarged in 1670 to form a large Renaissance-style mansion. Ruinous by c.1800, it was reconstructed in 1830 by Sir Robert Preston. This pilastered doorway on the house's north front, bears the Preston coat of arms in the pediment above. The entire house was remodelled by Robert Hurd & Partners in 1954-9, when they lowered the house by one floor and removed four end bays. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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