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Architecture Notes
Event ID 793818
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/793818
EXTERNAL REFERENCE
The National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, contains, among the "Uncatalogued MSS of general Hutton", and numbered 107, 108, 109 and 110, Vol.1, several views of 'Gowrie castle', Perth, dated 1783. They include the Monk's Tower, the South View, and the View looking North.
Perth.
Board of Ordnance Drawings.
Gowrie House.
According to the Gazeteers, Earl Gowrie's Palace stood on the site now occupied by the County Buildings, and was surrounded by a garden. Built in 1520 by the Countess of Huntly, afterwards purchased by Lord Ruthven, it passed, after the murder of the Earl of Gowrie, into the possession of the City of Perth, which City in 1746 presented it to the Duke of Cumberland. The Duke of Cumberland sold it to the Government, and it was used for many years as Artillery Barracks. Finally it was re-sold to the City, when it was demolished, and its materials sold for about #600, to make room for the present County Buildings. The last fragment, it is said, disappeared in 1865.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
