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Field Visit
Date 18 September 1925
Event ID 1099065
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1099065
Dovecot, Leuchars Castle.
A fine 17th century dovecot of unusually ornate type stands in a field 300 yards south of the farmhouse of Leuchars Castle, and 200 yards east of the castle site. It is circular on plan, having a girth of 64 ¾ feet, and the walls rise, broken by two moulded string-courses, to an elaborate corbelling of four members bearing a pyramidal slated roof. The entrance faces south-east and has an arched head dated [16]61. The lower string-course returns upward above the entrance to enclose an armorial panel, now missing. The four lowest members of the corbelling are sculptured and bear respectively a male head, a terminal figure, a female figure from the waist upwards, and the figure of an angel. The entrance is fitted with double doors, and the nests are of stone.
RCAHMS 1933, visited 18 September 1925.
