Archaeology Notes

Event ID 682225

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO12NW 9.00 11387 26527

(NO 1135 2655) Scone Palace, on site of Palace (NR)

OS 6" map, Perthshire, 2nd ed., (1901)

The so-called palace of Scone, more properly, the house of the abbots, was entirely destroyed, along with the abbey in 1559. It is not known if it stood on the same site as the present palace, but its successor, built by Sir David Murray c. 1605, certainly did. This was a mansion house built round three sides of a court. Charles II resided here for his coronation in 1651.

The mansion is said to have been destroyed by fire in 1804. The present palace was built 1803-8. A few of the walls of the old house are said to be encased in those of the new.

New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845; S Cowan 1904; A S Martin 1897; F H Groome 1901.