Detail of urn (no.6 on plan), at West side of stone stair from South West.
D 59532 CN
Description Detail of urn (no.6 on plan), at West side of stone stair from South West.
Date 1/4/1999
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number D 59532 CN
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 757569
Scope and Content Urn on west side of stone stair from south-west, Drummond Castle, Perth & Kinross This shows a carved stone urn in the castle's formal garden. The base is carved with scrollwork, and deeply-cut mouldings frame the main body of the vase. Grotesque masks on brackets divide the urn into four panels. These are filled with mythological scenes, including Vulcan at his forge (right). The urn is surmounted by a decorative finial. Drummond Castle had well established gardens by the 17th century, but the present parterre was not laid out until the 1820s by Lewis Kennedy (estate factor and former gardener to the Empress Josephine) for Clementina Drummond and her husband 21st Baron Willoughby de Eresby. The garden was replanted by Phyllis Astor in the 1950s. Drummond Castle was built c.1490, but the complex of buildings visible today consist of a gatehouse which was added in 1630-6 by architect John Mylne III (1611-67) and an L-plan mansion built for the 4th Earl of Perth in 1689. The mansion was extended in the 18th or early 19th century, and remodelled in Baronial style into its present form by architect G T Ewing in 1878 and 1900. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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