Architecture Notes

Event ID 670123

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NO42SE 3.00 46475 21083 Earlshall

NO42SE 3.01 46511 21079 Walled Garden

NO42SE 3.02 46445 21147 Lodge

NO42SE 3.03 46509 21080 Sundial to East side of Terraced Garden

NO42SE 3.04 46464 21057 Sundial to West of House

NO42SE 4 46460 21001 Dovecot

MISCELLANEOUS:

PSAS IV, p.987, notice of painted room

EAA Cuttings Book - note of visit by EAA

NMRS REFERENCE:

Plans:

Lorimer Collection.

Part of a collection of painted designs related to the ceilings-and perhaps also walls and fabrics - of Earlshall, Fife. Three of the painted fragments are of the black and white distemper patterns on the timber-panelled ceilings of Earlshall's gallery (2nd floor) and ante-room, which were restored by Mr Nixon of Moxon and Carfrae c.1873 (see Fife: Pictorial and Historical, Vol.1. p 347 by A H Millar).

LOR/EARLSHALL/1

Fragment of F.S. painted design from Gallery Ceiling with detail of the 'Asse' panel, which is above the door which leads to the stairs.

Insc: (front, in ink): 'Old south ceiling decoration'

(back, in pencil): 'Coloured decoration'.

n/s n/d.

LOR/EARSHALL CEILINGS/1

Brown and black paint on cartridge

LOR/EARLSHALL/2

Fragment related to /1. gallery ceiling? of gallery walls? or ante-room

n/s

LOR/EARSHALL CEILINGS/2.

Brown & black paint on paper

LOR/EARLSHALL/3

Fragment of /1

LOR/EARSHALL CEILINGS/3.

LOR/EARLSHALL/4

Survey of decorated panelling at the 'Old House, Lawnmarket'.

Insc: 'Painted Ceiling of Old house, Lawnmarket, recently pulled down' (front, in ink).

'Coloured decoration' (back, in pencil).

Floral, bird and animal designs

N/s n/d

LOR/EARSHALL CEILINGS/4.

Ink and paint on linen

LOR/EARLSHALL/5

F.S. stencilled design for damask? - at Earlshall??

n/s n/d n/insc.

LOR/EARSHALL CEILINGS/5.

Pencil and paint on green paper

Non-Guardianship Sites Plan Collection, DC23457- DC23477, 1961

(Undated) information in NMRS.