View of keep, mansion and garden from South. Digital image of D 47348 CN.

Description View of keep, mansion and garden from South. Digital image of D 47348 CN.

Date 28/7/1999

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

Catalogue Number SC 757635

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 47348 CN

Scope and Content Keep, house and garden from south, Drummond Castle, Perth & Kinross This view shows the steep changing levels of ground which have been terraced to create this dramatic garden. In the foreground is the kitchen garden and hothouses, where vegetables are grown, and delicate flowers and fruits 'forced' under glass for use in the castle. Walls and hedges conceal this working area from the formal parterre (of which only the tops of the clipped trees are visible). The design of Drummond's gardens are attributed to the estate factor, Lewis Kennedy, who was appointed in 1818 after being employed by Empress Josephine at Malmaison in France. However, the terrace design was probably influenced by a series of watercolour plans of Drummond which were exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1828 by architect Charles Barry. Drummond Castle was built c.1490, but the complex visible today consists 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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