View from SW.
RE 677
Description View from SW.
Date c. 1900
Collection Records of the National Art Survey of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number RE 677
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 800106
Scope and Content Newark Castle, Inverclyde, from south-west This view from the south-west, taken in about 1900, shows the late 15th-century gatehouse on the left, with the roofline of a courtyard building visible on its gable. The rest of the buildings seen here are the 1597-9 extension, with ground-floor kitchen and cellars, hall above and bedrooms on the top floor. The 1597-9 range has a symmetrical north front. The first-floor hall is reached from the courtyard by a 'scale and platt' staircase, one of the earliest examples of this type of (straight flight and landing) staircase in Scotland. Newark Castle was originally a tower-house built soon after 1478 by George Maxwell, son of John Maxwell of Calderwood in Lanarkshire. It was greatly extended in 1597-9 by Patrick Maxwell. One of his descendants sold the site of Port Glasgow to the Town Council of Glasgow in 1668. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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