General view of entrance front
BL 19001
Description General view of entrance front
Date 1904
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number BL 19001
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Entrance Front, Mount Melville, St Andrews, Fife (latterly known as Craigtoun Hospital) Mount Melville, a Jacobean-style chateau lying in extensive parkland to the south-west of St Andrews, was designed by the architect, Paul Waterhouse, for the brewer, James Younger. This photograph of the entrance front was taken in 1905 by the architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere. The entrance, fronted by a dwarf circular forecourt, is off-centre, and contained within a gabled bay with a round-arched open porch. To the right is a mullioned and transomed hall window with an arcaded parapet, and a corbelled angle turret with a conical roof. Mount Melville takes its name from an earlier house on the site owned by General Robert Melville (1723-1809), Governor of Grenada. In the 1770s he invented the carronade, a short-barrelled ship's cannon known as a 'smasher' which was manufactured by the Carron Iron Company of Falkirk. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Medium Glass
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