View of girl at entrance gates to Hopetoun House.
B 7131
Description View of girl at entrance gates to Hopetoun House.
Date c. 1900 to 1930
Collection Thomas Hadden
Catalogue Number B 7131
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 767026
Scope and Content Gateway and east lodge, Hopetoun House, West Lothian This shows the east gates and lodge designed by architect Sir Robert Rowand Anderson (1834-1921) in 1895. A girl, (perhaps the lodge-keeper's daughter) in c.1900 dress, stands behind a colonnaded wrought iron screen next to a gate decorated with a crown, monogram and anchor motifs. The single-storeyed Lodge behind her is built of ashlar masonry, and features a portico supported by Ionic pilasters. Gate lodges are the first part of the estate seen by a visitor, so were often used to suggest the wealth and taste of the landowner, and to reflect the style of the main house. They housed the gatekeeper and his family, whose job was to monitor who was arriving or leaving the estate. Some large estates might have several lodges at their many entrances. Hopetoun House, the seat of the Marquis of Linlithgow, was built 1699-1704 to designs by architect Sir William Bruce (c.1630-1710). Between 1721 and 1748 architect William Adam (1689-1748), and his sons Robert (1728-92) and John (1721-92) designed extensions to the central block, flanked by curving colonnades leading to advanced pavilions containing stables (north) and a ballroom (south). Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Accession Number 1980/31
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