'Grimsthorpe facade' (no.36 on plan), detail of statue (no.37 on plan) in right hand niche. Digital image of D 59628 CN.

Description 'Grimsthorpe facade' (no.36 on plan), detail of statue (no.37 on plan) in right hand niche. Digital image of D 59628 CN.

Date 1/4/1999

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

Catalogue Number SC 757606

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 59628 CN

Scope and Content Statue of Pan, Grimsthorpe façade, Drummond Castle, Perth & Kinross This shows a white marble Classical-style sculpture of Pan, with his pan pipes, or 'syrinx' in his hand, and his goat at his feet. The sculpture occupies a niche on the left hand side of the archway and is flanked by Doric columns. A sculpture of Orion or Actaeon and his hound is sited in the right hand niche. 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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