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Architecture Notes
Event ID 827864
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/827864
NS99SW 1 90658 91958
Dates from the 15th century. Oblong in plan, with a short projecting wing, it is 79 feet high, its modern slated roof being gained by a spiral stair; and it retains the cellars, kitchen, barrel-vaulted hall, upper chamber, machicoulis, corbie-stepped gables and bartizan, with a 17th century belfry.
Non-Guardianship Sites Plan Collection, DC23169- DC23171, 1953.
EXTERNAL REFERENCE:
The National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh.
MSS 3241-3 a collection of Sketches made by James Nasmyth, some being by his father, his brother Patrick, and his sister Jane. In volume 3241 is a Sketch, numbered 31, of Clackmannan Tower.
Tradition asserts that Robert the Bruce, was the builder of this Tower in the small town of Clackmannan. In 1359, David II made a grant of it to is kinsman, Sir Robert Bruce. The oldest portion is a typical XIV century tower or Lairds's House, with a small chamber called a cap-house rising above the parapet.
