Castle Menzies View from South East.

Description Castle Menzies View from South East.

Date 17/9/1884

Collection Papers of Erskine Beveridge, antiquarian, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 743020

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of PT 1656

Scope and Content Castle Menzies, Perth & Kinross, from the south-east Castle Menzies, a large mansion house standing in extensive parkland at the foot of Weem Hill near the River Tay at Aberfeldy, dates from the second half of the 16th century. The house, which was the seat of the chiefs of the Clan Menzies, was photographed in 1884 by the Victorian photographer, Erskine Beveridge. This rubble-built house was constructed on a Z-plan, with a main block, consisting of three storeys and an attic, and five-storeyed square towers projecting at the north-east and south-west (left) corners. Most of the angles are crowned by corbelled turrets with conical slated roofs, and the dormer windows in the attic storey have richly-sculptured pediments. The elaborate porch and doorway in the centre of the main block is of a later date. The original entrance was in the re-entrant angle of the south-west tower (left), and protected with an iron yett, a heavy grill with interwoven bars. The ground floor of the main block is vaulted and was originally used for storage. The principal rooms lay on the first floor, with a grand hall, lit by the three large windows, on the left and a private chamber with a single window to the east (right). The bedrooms were on the floor above, but this arrangement did not provide enough general accommodation for the late Menzies lairds who built very large extensions to the north and west of the house in 1840 in the same architectural style. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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