View from SW.
SC 800106
Description View from SW.
Date c. 1900
Collection Records of the National Art Survey of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 800106
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of RE 677
Scope and Content Newark Castle, Inverclyde, from south-west This view from the south-west, taken in about 1900, shows the late 15th-century gatehouse on the left, with the roofline of a courtyard building visible on its gable. The rest of the buildings seen here are the 1597-9 extension, with ground-floor kitchen and cellars, hall above and bedrooms on the top floor. The 1597-9 range has a symmetrical north front. The first-floor hall is reached from the courtyard by a 'scale and platt' staircase, one of the earliest examples of this type of (straight flight and landing) staircase in Scotland. Newark Castle was originally a tower-house built soon after 1478 by George Maxwell, son of John Maxwell of Calderwood in Lanarkshire. It was greatly extended in 1597-9 by Patrick Maxwell. One of his descendants sold the site of Port Glasgow to the Town Council of Glasgow in 1668. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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