Details of gateway at forecourt, Traquair House, Peeblesshire. Pen and ink, with scale (see notes). Digital image of PBD/285/53.

Description Details of gateway at forecourt, Traquair House, Peeblesshire. Pen and ink, with scale (see notes). Digital image of PBD/285/53.

Date 1917

Catalogue Number SC 760067

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of PBD 285/53 P

Scope and Content Drawing of forecourt gates, Traquair House, Scottish Borders This shows a measured drawing of the gates to the forecourt. Two 'rusticated' gate piers of stone are surmounted by carved stone urns, decorated with swags and leaves. The gates and railings are enriched with wrought-iron flowers, rosettes and fleur-de-lys. The arms of the Stewarts of Traquair and a coronet can be seen in the centre of the gates. These gates were erected in 1698 to designs by James Smith, and were estimated to have cost £25. These richly ornamented and costly gates were designed to impress visitors arriving at the house, whose carriages would pass through them before entering the courtyard. Traquair is the oldest continually inhabited house in Scotland, with its origins in the 10th century. It was the site of a royal hunting lodge in the 1200s, but the house as seen today is based around a c.1512 tower-house with many later additions. The flanking service wings were built in 1695 to designs by architect James Smith (c.1645-1731), who also designed the wrought-iron screens round the courtyard in 1698. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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