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Architecture Notes
Event ID 801636
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/801636
NO22SW 1.00 24195 24605
Owner: Captain Humphrey Drummond of Megginch
Architect: Mills & Shepherd 1928 additions
Robert Adam castellated addition 1784
Information from Dr A R Somerville, Cheshire, in letter dated 8.8.89.
"On my last trip I did manage to get into Megginch Castle. They have a small lectern dial made in C19 by Lady Strange's grandfather, which I think is listed, but they have now found the C17 original from which itwas copied and which has the the initials SPH and DMS - Sir Peter Day and Dame Maria Scrimgeour, who were married about 1630. They also have a wall dial - overgrown by wisteria - which is flaking badly now and the date has been lost, but Lady Strange remembers it clearly as 1575, so it is a very early one."
