General view from SE showing palace buildings

Description General view from SE showing palace buildings

Date 1979

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 793672

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Culross Palace, Fife, from south-east This view from the south-east, taken in 1979, shows part of the house built by George Bruce in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The middle part of the west range, in the centre, probably includes an earlier house, remodelled and extended in about 1597. The block on the right was added in 1611. The burgh declined from the mid-18th century, but many of its buildings remained intact, if neglected. In 1932 The National Trust for Scotland purchased some of the properties including this one, and began a programme of refurbishment, using Ian G Lindsay & Partners as the architects. The burgh of Culross was one of Scotland's first industrial towns. Coal appears to have been mined here from an early date, and from 1575 it was worked on a large scale by George Bruce. In 1592 the town became a royal burgh, with the exclusive right to make iron girdles, used for baking oatcakes and pancakes. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference CTH143

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File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap