Wrought-iron gateway, detail Digital image of D/31689

Description Wrought-iron gateway, detail Digital image of D/31689

Date 11/5/1998

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 757519

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 31689

Scope and Content Wrought-iron gateway, Walled Garden, Cluny Castle, Highland This shows a wrought-iron gateway leading into the walled garden. The Victorian kitchen garden contained a wide range of vegetables and fruits which had different flavours and shapes. Fruit trees would be trained to grow up and along walls and there were greenhouses to cultivate more delicate produce. The garden would also have been a place where the women of the house would take a stroll. The wide variety in shape, colour and texture of the fruit and vegetables grown made walled gardens visually attractive. The Victorian kitchen gardener provided the family, guests and servants with a large quantity of quality vegetables all year round without the help of modern fertilisers and equipment. Cluny Castle was built in 1805 for the Macphersons of Cluny and stands on the site of an earlier castle which was destroyed by fire in 1746. William Laidlaw Carruthers, Inverness, designed the north-west wing and the Queen Anne Revival-style porch c.1890. Many of the estate buildings were also built when the castle was rebuilt, including gate lodges, stables, meal mill, saw mill and walled gardens. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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