RCAHMS Commissioners Field Meeting

Date 2010

Event ID 1022597

Category Project

Type Project

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Between the 31st August and 2nd September 2010, the RCAHMS Commissioners were taken to visit a number of significant sites recently recorded by the staff in Fife and Perthshire. To inform this trip an illustrated guide was prepared with a brief summary description of each site, and an introductory text. These short site descriptions were entered into the Canmore database in 2017, but readers are advised to consult the final publication for the most detailed account.

Information from HES (LCK) 30 May 2017

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1019597	DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNTS	PUBLICATION ACCOUNT	The ‘Palace of Rothess,’ as Defoe called it in the 1720s, has been much altered from its original grandeur. Successive fires in 1763 and 2009 have reduced the great courtyard palace, built for the seventh Earl of Rothes between 1667 and 1672, to the present shell. [...]	2010
1019599	DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNTS	PUBLICATION ACCOUNT	The Cistercian abbey of Balmerino is situated on a terrace overlooking the Tay estuary. Founded in 1226/7 by Alexander II and Queen Ermengarde, it was burned by the English in 1547 and raided by reformers in 1559. After the Reformation the abbey was granted to a series of commendators, who may be responsible for some of the changes which may be seen in the buildings. It was subsequently erected into a lordship for the Elphinstone lords of Balmerino. However, most of the demolition of the surviving buildings appears to have carried out in the early seventeenth century by the second Lord Balmerino for use in the repair of the church at Monifieth. [...]	2010
1019598	DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNTS	PUBLICATION ACCOUNT	Fernie Castle is a sixteenth century L-plan tower house, with a circular turret, corbelled to square at upper level, projecting from the north-west angle. This tower is of four storeys, with attics. In the early eighteenth century the Balfours of Fernie added a three storey extension to the east. This large extension, which provided suites of more comfortable accommodation, is still clearly visible and originally made no attempt to match the tower house. About 1815 Francis Balfour made ‘toy fort like’ additions including a porch to the stair tower, the historic entrance to the tower house. A single storey wing to the west, complete with a castellated parapet, was also added, which hid the service courtyard from view. His son, also Francis, employed Alexander Blyth around 1844-9 to remodel the eighteenth century wing to make it more sympathetic to the tower. This involved the addition of crowsteps to the east gable, a conical roofed tower at the north-east corner and a new front door. He also created a double drawing room on the first floor which survives. In the late twentieth century a circular ballroom was added to the rear for the hotel. [...]	2010

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