Oblique aerial view of Crichton Castle.

Description Oblique aerial view of Crichton Castle.

Date 1972

Collection John Dewar

Catalogue Number SC 798484

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of ML 4290 CN

Scope and Content Aerial view of Crichton Castle, Midlothian This aerial view of Crichton Castle from the south-south-west was taken in 1972, and shows the 15th-century keep-gatehouse in the foreground, with the 14th-century tower above, on the right. At the top is the extraordinary Italian renaissance range of 1585, with its ground-floor piazza. 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.

External Reference 6388/CN/8

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