Publication drawing; plans of Crichton Castle and stable. Photographic copy.

Description Publication drawing; plans of Crichton Castle and stable. Photographic copy.

Date 1920

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

Catalogue Number SC 798485

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of E 4963 P

Scope and Content Photographic copy of plans of Crichton Castle, Midlothian These plans of Crichton Castle, dating from 1920, were drawn by C S T Calder for the RCAHMS Inventory of Midlothian. They show the arrangement of the buildings forming the castle round a central courtyard. The block plan shows the situation of the castle, and its relationship to the stable. 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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