Oblique aerial view of Crichton Castle taken from the NNW.

Description Oblique aerial view of Crichton Castle taken from the NNW.

Date 28/5/1997

Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography

Catalogue Number SC 798480

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 5965 CN

Scope and Content Aerial view of Crichton Castle, Midlothian This aerial view of Crichton Castle from the north was taken in1977, and shows the relationship of the castle to the heavily-buttressed stable, with the foundations of outbuildings beyond. At the top left is a newly-ploughed and harrowed field, and at the bottom left is a field of oil-seed rape in flower. The remodelling of c.1585, for the Earl of Douglas, was grandiose, with a diamond-faceted frontage to the courtyard, and an open arcade on the ground floor, in an Italian Renaissance manner, the most remarkable work of its kind in Scotland. The castle was placed in State care (now Historic Scotland) in 1926, and is open to the public. The oldest part of Crichton Castle is a late 14th-century tower-house, with a walled enclosure on its west side. On the south-south-west side of this a keep-gatehouse was built in the early 15th century, and ranges were built on the north-north-east and east-north-east sides later in that century. The north-north-east range was rebuilt and extended in about 1585. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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