Interior-general view of entrance hall

Description Interior-general view of entrance hall

Date 1905

Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England

Catalogue Number SC 737060

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 19143

Scope and Content Hall, Yester House, East Lothian (now a private house) Yester House, the home of the Marquesses of Tweeddale, was built in the early 18th century as a Classical mansion to the design of James Smith & Alexander MacGill. Over the next 250 years, the interior was altered and improved by several of Scotland's most renowned architects, including William Adam and his sons, Robert & John, and the 19th-century architect, Robert Brown. The architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, was commissioned to photograph the house in 1905. The first part of the hall, remodelled by Robert Brown when he re-orientated the main entrance of the house from the north to the west front in 1830, is square with a bold compartmented ceiling and Classical cornice. Two of William Adam's Ionic columns, with new capitals, have been used to articulate its broader section. The walls are hung with trophies from hunting, fishing and shooting, and adorned with swords, shields, armour, regimental colours, and family portraits. A massive skull lies under the table (right). William Hay, the 10th Marquess of Tweeddale who succeeded to the title in 1878, served from 1845-62 in the Bengal Civil Service, India, and was a friend of Hodson who raised the famous Bengal Lancer Regiment. After the battle of the Red Fort, Hodson sent the trappings of a captured horse belonging to an Indian prince to Hay who, in turn, displayed them in the hall at Yester. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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