View from East

Description View from East

Date c. 1900

Collection Records of the National Art Survey of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 798092

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of F 5222

Scope and Content Aberdour Castle, Fife, from east-north-east This view from the east-north-east, taken in about 1900, shows part of the east front of Aberdour Castle, with the additions made in about 1635 by the 6th Earl of Morton on the left and in the centre, with a gallery on the first floor with a painted ceiling, and stables and stores on the ground floor. To the right is part of a block added in about 1570 by the 4th Earl. The original roofs of the c.1635 extension were lowered in pitch, probably in about 1800. As can be seen, the building was largely disused and decaying in about 1900. It was subsequently given into State care, and is now opened to the public by Historic Scotland. The oldest part of Aberdour Castle is a 14th-century tower on a rhomboidal plan, which was extended to the east in the 16th and 17th centuries. To the south are the remains of a terraced garden, with a beehive dovecot, and to the east of that is a walled garden. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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