Blair Castle, walled garden. View of gate at West end. Digital image of B 30449.

Description Blair Castle, walled garden. View of gate at West end. Digital image of B 30449.

Date 11/4/1990

Catalogue Number SC 767005

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of B 30449

Scope and Content Gate at west end of Walled Garden, Blair Castle, Perth & Kinross This shows a wrought-iron gate dating from 1924 set into the high walls of what is now called the 'Hercules Garden'. The gate is divided into angular panels which are filled with iron scrollwork and foliage patterns. The central panel bears a monogram, Ducal coronet (small crown) and the dates 1899-1924. The walled garden was described as 'the most beautiful Kitchen garden in the world' by a visitor to Blair in 1760. They also described the: 'fine piece of water, with six or seven islands and peninsulas in it, two of which are for swans to breed on, having thatched houses built on them for that purpose', 'pigeon house', 'Gardener's house', 'Summerhouse which is all glass in front' and 'twenty grotesque figures in lead'. The garden was restored in the mid-1990s. Blair Castle, the seat of the Dukes of Atholl, was begun in 1269, extended in the 15th and 16th centuries, and remodelled to resemble a Georgian mansion by architect James Winter in the mid-1700s. The south-east wing was built in 1743-5, and rebuilt to include a clock-tower to designs by architect Archibald Elliot in 1814 after a fire. The castle was 're-baronialised' to designs by architect David Bryce in 1869-71, who also designed the ballroom (1826-7). It was modified again in 1886 (J C Walker), 1904-5 (J McIntyre Henry) and 1920-1 (Sir Robert Lorimer). Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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