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Blair Castle, walled garden. General view from East. Digital image of B 30440 CN.
SC 767020
Description Blair Castle, walled garden. General view from East. Digital image of B 30440 CN.
Date 11/4/1990
Catalogue Number SC 767020
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 30440 CN
Scope and Content Walled garden from the east, Blair Castle, Perth & Kinross This shows the walled garden, now renamed the 'Hercules Garden' (after a lead statue of the hero) before its restoration in the mid-1990s. The expanse of water in the centre of the photograph is part of a canal and pond which are the centre of a large water garden created by the 2nd Duke of Atholl between 1741 and 1754. 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'. 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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