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Interior. Detail of fireplace and overmantle in first floor library. Digital image of C 54073 CN.

SC 772386

Description Interior. Detail of fireplace and overmantle in first floor library. Digital image of C 54073 CN.

Date 5/1995

Catalogue Number SC 772386

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of C 54073 CN

Scope and Content Fireplace and overmantel in the library, Newbattle Abbey House, Midlothian This shows a white marble 18th-century fireplace with inner tile panels by William Morris & Co depicting Pre-Raphaelite maidens. The carved oak overmantel which incorporates a portrait by Van Dyck, (1599-1641), and bookcases are the work of W E Newfield in c.1878, and feature barley-twist columns and grotesque heads. The fine moulded plasterwork ceiling dates from the early 17th century. Most country houses hold a fine collection of expensive leather-bound books within a richly-decorated library. These rooms would be used by the gentlemen of the house for reading and for dealing with correspondence or business. They would also be used by guests staying at the house, and thus served as reminders of the host's wealth and taste. Newbattle Abbey was founded by Cistercian monks in 1140, and its church dedicated to St Mary in 1233-4. It became a private residence in 1587 when the last abbot, Mark Kerr, converted to Protestantism and was able to retain his lands. His son became Lord Newbattle in 1596. The remains of the abbey are built into the surviving house, which was modified and rebuilt by the architects John Mylne (1650), William Burn (1836) and David Bryce (1858). The house was gifted to the nation in 1937 to be used as a further education college. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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