Fountain (no.45 on plan), view from West. Digital image of D 59652 CN.

Description Fountain (no.45 on plan), view from West. Digital image of D 59652 CN.

Date 28/7/1999

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

Catalogue Number SC 757561

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 59652 CN

Scope and Content Fountain from west, Drummond Castle, Perth & Kinross This shows a Classical-style statue of a man leaning against a tree-stump. The sculpture is placed upon a roughly textured base in the middle of a shallow circular pool. Jets of water spray arc inwards towards the figure. Around the fountains can be seen part of the castle's famous formal gardens, with their beds of white roses and symmetrical arrangement of topiary. Fountains can be dramatic or gentle, and are used to create a focal point in formal gardens. They were popular in the 1600s, but fell out of fashion in the 1700s, when tastes dictated that gardens should be more 'natural' (even though this involved the building of artificial lakes and rivers). Victorian technological advances saw a revival of fountain building, and allowed designers to create more elaborate jets and styles. Drummond Castle was built c.1490, but the complex of buildings visible today consist of a gatehouse which was added in 1630-6 by architect John Mylne III (1611-67) and an L-plan mansion built for the 4th Earl of Perth in 1689. The mansion was extended in the 18th or early 19th century, and remodelled in Baronial style into its present form by architect G T Ewing in 1878 and 1900. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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