View of castle from walled garden to north north east Digital image of D 68830 CN

Description View of castle from walled garden to north north east Digital image of D 68830 CN

Date 23/8/2000

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

Catalogue Number SC 798716

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 68830 CN

Scope and Content Walled garden, Edzell Castle, Angus, from north-north-east This view from the north-north-east, taken in 2000, looking across the 17th-century garden, shows the early 16th-century tower-house to the left, with the ruined late 16th-century mansion to the right. The octagonal box border has cut into it the motto of the Lindsays: 'Dum spiro spero', which translates as 'While I breathe I hope'. The garden buildings at Edzell, with niches in the walls for flowering plants and low-relief sculptures of the cardinal virtues, the liberal arts and the planetary deities, are unique. The imagery of the sculpture derives from German models. The planting of the garden was devised by J S Richardson in the 1930s. The castle and its gardens are now in the care of Historic Scotland and are open to the public. Edzell Castle is an ancient seat of the Lindsays of Glenesk. The oldest surviving part of the complex is an early 16th-century tower, to which the 9th Earl of Crawford added a mansion in the late 16th century. His son completed the complex by adding a walled garden and bath and summer houses. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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