Interior. Ground floor view of dining room from East showing original furnishings, fittings and stags heads installed for the Earls of Fife Digital image of D/11005/cn

Description Interior. Ground floor view of dining room from East showing original furnishings, fittings and stags heads installed for the Earls of Fife Digital image of D/11005/cn

Date 12/5/1997

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

Catalogue Number SC 778694

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 11005 CN

Scope and Content Dining Room, Mar Lodge, Aberdeenshire, from east This shows the dining room which retains many of its original fittings and furnishings despite the large fire in 1991. The panelling is made from local Caledonian pine and it seems likely that the dining room chairs and buffet tables were also made from this wood. The room is lined with stags' heads which were killed on the estate and there is a portrait on the left possibly portraying an earl. There is a decorative wood ceiling and there are Ionic columns at each side of the window recess and the black marble chimneypiece. The overmantel has an oval convex mirror. The dining room was one of the main entertaining rooms on the ground floor of the lodge and was where the family and their guests would have eaten their main meals. The servants would have eaten their meals in a separate room which was probably called the servants' hall. The 'upper' servants, such as butler and housekeeper, would have been allowed to use a different room away from the 'lower' servants for some of their meals. William Duff of Dipple who became the 1st Earl of Fife in 1759 built the original Mar Lodge (or Dalmore House) in 1750. The 6th Earl was created the 1st Duke of Fife when he married Princess Louise, who was a daughter of King Edward VII. When Mar Lodge was destroyed by fire in 1895, Alexander Marshall Mackenzie (1848-1933) designed a new lodge and Queen Victoria laid the foundation stone later in the same year. The duke and duchess used the house mainly as a sporting lodge and an autumn home. The building had another serious fire in 1991 but was subsequently restored. The 29,380-hectare estate had several owners from 1959 until 1995 when The National Trust for Scotland bought it, with the help of a £10 million lottery grant. The lodge has been divided into five self-catering holiday apartments which can be rented by the public. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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