View of fountain from East. Digital image of D 47418 CN.

Description View of fountain from East. Digital image of D 47418 CN.

Date 1/4/1999

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

Catalogue Number SC 757664

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 47418 CN

Scope and Content Fountain from east, Drummond Castle, Perth & Kinross This shows a fountain next to the mansion. It takes the form of an octagonal tank with decorative brackets at intervals around the top, and crowned shields at the angles. From the centre of the pool rises a tall column with iron spouts topped by a leafy capital, crown and small dog (elements which feature in the Drummond coat of arms). Elegant and costly garden features like this fountain were often set up at intervals throughout an estate to contrast with forms of topiary, trees and planting, and to give a focal point to arcades and avenues. Guests would walk through the gardens admiring the sculptures which were chosen to emphasise the taste and style of the landowner. 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 the Baronial style into its present form by architect G T Ewing in 1878 and 1900. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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