General view of West Front.
SC 695854
Description General view of West Front.
Date 1904
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number SC 695854
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of BL 18622
Scope and Content Mount Stuart House, Isle of Bute, Argyll & Bute, from the west Mount Stuart, originally built in 1719, is the seat of the Stuarts of Bute. After a fire in 1877, the house was rebuilt by Robert Rowand Anderson, a process completed in 1903. This photograph of the west front was taken in 1904 by Harry Bedford Lemere. This spectacular Victorian Gothic house, in red sandstone, has rows of pointed-arch windows, varying in size, and a recessed gallery in brick and timber which wraps itself round the upper floor under a steeply pitched roof peppered with dormer windows. The Bute family are descendants of King Robert the Bruce whose daughter married the Steward of Bute in 1315, the Stuart name being derived from that hereditary office. In 1371 their son became the first Stuart king, Robert II. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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