Field Visit
Date 3 August 1927
Event ID 1099001
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1099001
Lundin Tower.
Rather less than half a mile-north-north-west of Lundin Links Station is a lofty rubble-built tower, once a part of old Lundin House which was demolished in 1876. Its main purpose was to contain the stairs, but there are chambers on the two upper floors. There is a parapeted look-out at the top, and the southern angles are turreted. A vaulted chamber adjoins the tower at the ground floor level on the west. The tower itself has been greatly altered; the present staircase is modern, but the stair contained in the eastern turret and leading to the upper floors is original. There is no apparent access to theother turret. To judge by the existing detail, the fragment in its original state dates from the close of the 16th or the beginning of the 17th century.
The house belonged to the family of Lundin. or Lundy of that ilk. Some details of the house proper as it was in 1662, when new work was being done, are given in Lamont's Diary, p. 139.
RCAHMS 1933, visited 3 August 1927.
