Interior-general view of Dining Room

Description Interior-general view of Dining Room

Date 1905

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

Catalogue Number SC 737064

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 19146

Scope and Content Dining Room, 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. This spacious dining room, by William Adam, has a heavy Classical cornice, supported by Ionic pilasters around the walls of the room. The magnificent Rococo chimneypiece has an elaborate overmantel with supporting figures, and there is further Rococo plasterwork at the corners and the centre of the flat ceiling. The dining room was originally the entrance hall of the house, and it was lowered to single storey height by William Adam. The room is considered to be his best interior at Yester, or for that matter anywhere. The plasterwork is possibly the work of Joseph Enzer who came to Yester in 1736 and worked on the staircase and its extravagantly decorated coved ceiling. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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