Currie, Lennox Tower View from North West.
SC 565174
Description Currie, Lennox Tower View from North West.
Catalogue Number SC 565174
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of ML 5069
Scope and Content Lennox Tower, Currie, Edinburgh Lennox Tower, once one of six fortified houses in the valley of the Water of Leith, was a 15th-century tower reputedly built by the Earl of Lennox, father-in-law of Mary Queen of Scots. The ruins of this rectangular tower, once a fortified house with very thick walls, are now virtually a garden ornament in the grounds of the mid-19th-century house of Lymphoy. The original tower allegedly had ramparts, a moat and a subterranean passage to the Water of Leith which possibly extended to Curriehill Castle and Colinton. The passage to the river was useful in providing water if the tower was besieged. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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