View of bridge from North West. Digital image of D 59506 CN.

Description View of bridge from North West. Digital image of D 59506 CN.

Date 1/4/1999

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

Catalogue Number SC 760012

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 59506 CN

Scope and Content Bridge from north-west, Drummond Castle, Perth & Kinross This shows a four-arched stone bridge within the castle's formal gardens. Flanking the arches are two 'blind' (blocked up) oculus windows, and the central section of the parapet is castellated (made to look like the battlements of a castle) in keeping with the real castle nearby. The curved hedge conceals a pond, which widens out to become a much larger feature on the other side of the bridge. 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 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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