'Grimsthorpe facade' (no.36 on plan), detail of statue (no.38 on plan) in left hand niche. Digital image of D 59630 CN.

Description 'Grimsthorpe facade' (no.36 on plan), detail of statue (no.38 on plan) in left hand niche. Digital image of D 59630 CN.

Date 1/4/1999

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

Catalogue Number SC 757604

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 59630 CN

Scope and Content Statue of a hunter and his hound, Grimsthorpe façade, Drummond Castle, Perth & Kinross This shows a white marble Classical-style sculpture of a young man with his hound, possibly Actaeon. He stands in the right hand niche of a Classical stone archway known as the Grimsthorpe façade. The opposite niche holds a statue of the god Pan. The Grimsthorpe faþade dates from the late 18th century, and was brought to the castle in 1932 by the 2nd Earl of Ancaster from Grimsthorpe, Lincolnshire. It was placed here to provide a dramatic frontage to a feature known as the 'fountain grotto'. 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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