Statue halfway down West side of stone stair (no.11 on plan), in the formal garden of Drummond Castle. View from South East. Digital image of D 59549 CN.

Description Statue halfway down West side of stone stair (no.11 on plan), in the formal garden of Drummond Castle. View from South East. Digital image of D 59549 CN.

Date 1/4/1999

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

Catalogue Number SC 757566

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 59549 CN

Scope and Content Statue on west side of stone stair from south-east, Drummond Castle, Perth & Kinross This shows a white marble sculpture of two putti with a bowl of grapes. It stands next to the stone staircase which leads from the castle to the formal gardens below. The garden is decorated by a great variety of statuary, much of which dates from the late 18th/early 19th centuries, and is mostly executed in the Classical style to complement this Italianate garden. Drummond Castle had well established gardens by the 17th century, but the present parterre was not laid out until the 1820s by Lewis Kennedy (estate factor and former gardener to the French Empress Josephine) for Clementina Drummond and her husband 21st Baron Willoughby de Eresby. The garden was replanted by Phyllis Astor in the 1950s. 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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