Taymouth Castle. 1st. floor, Breakfast room, view of dresser on South wall. Digital image of D/21838/cn

Description Taymouth Castle. 1st. floor, Breakfast room, view of dresser on South wall. Digital image of D/21838/cn

Date 8/9/1997

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

Catalogue Number SC 766039

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 21838 CN

Scope and Content Built-in buffet in breakfast room, Taymouth Castle, Perth & Kinross This shows a vast built-in buffet, or servery, designed by John More Dick Peddie (1853-1921) and Charles George Hood Kinnear (1830-94) who redesigned the breakfast room in the 1870s. The buffet has a wooden base with five panels and six carved columns. The upper part has an integral mirror flanked by elaborately carved columns with a statue of Queen Margaret on the left and William Wallace on the right. The canopy has carved quatrefoils (four-leafed design) and is surmounted by a carved frieze with four pinnacles. The purpose of a breakfast room was to provide a room which did not smell of the previous night's dinner for the family and guests to eat their first meal of the day. This also meant that the servants had more time to prepare the dining room for lunch. Taymouth Castle was built for the Campbells of Breadalbane and stands on the site of Balloch Castle, which was built c.1550. Taymouth's main block, built between 1802 and 1810, was designed by James Elliot (1770-1810) and the east wing, built between 1818 and 1821, was designed by William Atkinson (c.1773-1839). The west pavilion, built in the early 18th century, was designed by William Adam (1689-1748) and was altered by James Gillespie Graham (1777-1855). The castle has important interior decoration by the Italian plasterer Francis Bernasconi and was visited by Queen Victoria in 1842. The Mactaggart family bought the estate in 1922 and converted the castle into a hotel and the deer park into a golf course. The castle was a convalescent home during World War II and has had several uses until c.1983 when it became unoccupied. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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