Detail of door with marble architrave in the first floor drawing room of Newbattle Abbey House, Midlothian. Digital image of C 54060 CN.

Description Detail of door with marble architrave in the first floor drawing room of Newbattle Abbey House, Midlothian. Digital image of C 54060 CN.

Date 5/1995

Catalogue Number SC 772452

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of C 54060 CN

Scope and Content Door in the drawing room, Newbattle Abbey House, Midlothian This shows an intricately panelled wooden door in the drawing room, composed of recessed areas of varying sizes edged with bands of moulding. The door has a brass handle and internal bolt. The door is framed by a marble architrave, and to the right of the doorway can be seen 12 light switches. Complicated and expensive woodwork, marble, gilded details and imitation damask painted on the walls all add to the rich effect of this public room. It was designed to display a fine picture collection to be viewed by guests after they 'withdrew' here after dinner for drinks, music and dancing. 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), 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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