General view.
C 38624 CN
Description General view.
Date 5/1995
Catalogue Number C 38624 CN
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 626552
Scope and Content Elevated view of formal garden, Newbattle Abbey House, Midlothian This shows the formal garden, with its Italianate parterre (patterns laid out using low hedges, lawns, shrubs and gravel). Flagstone paths divide up areas of the patterned planting, which are seen to good effect from the house, as this elevated view shows. In the top centre background can be seen one of two sundials which date from 1635. This type of garden would be used by the family and their guests for walking in, or 'promenading' as it was called. Visitors would be taken to admire features such as the sundials, the grotto, or the orangery, as they toured the estate. Newbattle Abbey was founded by Cistercian monks in 1140, and its church dedicated to St Mary in 1233-4. It became a private residence in 1587 when the last abbot, Mark Kerr, converted to Protestantism and was able to retain his lands. His son became Lord Newbattle in 1596. The remains of the abbey are built into the surviving house, which was modified and rebuilt by the architects John Mylne (1650), William Burn (1836) and David Bryce (1858). The house was gifted to the nation in 1937 to be used as a further education college. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Medium Colour negative
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