General view of entrance gateway showing towers
BL 15141/A
Description General view of entrance gateway showing towers
Date 1898
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number BL 15141/A
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies B 64414, B 64414 S, SC 694749
Scope and Content Main Entrance, Duntreath Castle, Strathblane, Stirling Duntreath Castle was extensively reconstructed in 1890 by the architect, Sydney Mitchell, for its owner, Sir Archibald Edmonstone. This photograph of the main entrance to the castle was taken in 1898 by the photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere. The magnificent entrance archway, inspired by Falkland Palace, acted as a 'porte-cochère', a porch large enough to admit four-wheeled carriages. It also provided a distant framed view through the courtyard to the original gatehouse beyond. The original castle was a 17th-century structure dominated by a fortified tower, dating from the 15th century, and a set of buildings around a central courtyard with a gatehouse in the north-west wall. Only the tower and gatehouse still survive. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Medium Glass
External Reference Box 33
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