View from South West.

Description View from South West.

Date 17/9/1884

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

Catalogue Number SC 743021

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of PT 1657

Scope and Content Castle Menzies, Perth & Kinross, from the west 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. The house, built to a Z-plan, consists of a main block with five-storeyed square towers built at the north-east and south-west (right) 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. In 1840 a large extension in the same architectural style was added to the west (left). The original Menzies seat was at Comrie Castle nearby, which was destroyed by fire in 1487. A new house, known as the Place of Weem, was built on the present site, but it was almost immediately destroyed by the Stewarts of Garth, sworn enemies of the Menzies. After a time the present house was rebuilt on the site, probably in 1577, and a plaque over the doorway which bears the initials of its owner, James Menzies, and his wife, Barbara Stewart, acknowledges that the feud between the Stewarts and Menzies had been finally resolved. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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