View of summerhouse and castle from NNE.

Description View of summerhouse and castle from NNE.

Date 23/8/2000

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number D 68828 CN

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 798721

Scope and Content Edzell Castle, Angus, from north-north-east This view from the north-north-east, taken in 2000, shows the 16th-century tower-house to the right, with the ruins of the late 16th-century mansion to the far right. In front is the north wall of the 17th-century garden, with the garden house on the corner. The pink sandstone was quarried locally. The garden buildings at Edzell, with niches in the walls for flowering plants and low-relief sculptures of the cardinal virtues, the liberal arts and the planetary deities, are unique. The imagery of the sculpture derives from German models. The planting of the garden was devised by J S Richardson in the 1930s. The castle and its gardens are now in the care of Historic Scotland and are open to the public. Edzell Castle is an ancient seat of the Lindsays of Glenesk. The oldest surviving part of the complex is an early 16th-century tower, to which the 9th Earl of Crawford added a mansion in the late 16th century. His son completed the complex by adding a walled garden and bath and summer houses. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Medium Colour negative

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