View of stone benches at West end of courtyard to keep. Digital image of D 47384 CN.

Description View of stone benches at West end of courtyard to keep. Digital image of D 47384 CN.

Date 24/2/1999

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

Catalogue Number SC 757652

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 47384 CN

Scope and Content Stone benches at west end of keep courtyard, Drummond Castle, Perth & Kinross This shows a row of stone benches along the side of the keep courtyard. They are made from large curved slabs of stone with huge brackets to divide each section. The benches allow visitors to sit and admire the view down the terraces into the formal gardens below. 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 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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