Interior. View of the Tapestry Room looking south east.

Description Interior. View of the Tapestry Room looking south east.

Date 29/7/1958

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

Catalogue Number SC 565487

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of ED 1946

Scope and Content The Tapestry Room, Prestonfield House, Duddingston, Edinburgh Prestonfield House, now a hotel, stands on the south side of Duddingston Loch. It was designed in the 1680s by Sir William Bruce for Sir James Dick, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, to replace an earlier house burnt down by a student demonstration in 1681. The Tapestry Room, the original drawing room in the west front of the house, has 17th-century wood-panelled walls hung with tapestries, and a famous plaster ceiling, with pendant cupids and heraldic beasts, comparable to similar work at Holyrood Palace. The architect of the house, Sir William Bruce, who was responsible for most of the interiors, had earlier completed the reconstruction of Holyrood Palace for King Charles II, and brought with him many of the craftsmen he had employed at the palace. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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