Valentines Day
08/02/2011
To celebrate Valentine’s Day we have searched our collections for our most romantic images.
Through our active surveying and recording programmes, RCAHMS adds new online images to the Canmore database every day. These range from interior and exterior views of buildings to archaeological sites, aerial photographs, and digital drawings. Our survey photographs also provide close up imagery of architectural details, which in this gallery includes decorative cherubs, marriage lintels and even rainwater heads.
The RCAHMS aerial photography team fly throughout the year capturing spectacular and sometimes unusual views of the Scottish landscape. From the air, a heart and flower design in fields near Loch Ussie becomes clearly visible, while the site of Inchmahome Priory is revealed as a heart-shaped island.
RCAHMS also maintains an active digitisation programme of its Collection items, copying photographs and historic views, photograph albums, original architects’ drawings, new survey drawings, engravings, sketches, books and maps. Examples of some of the more personal images from our photographic albums offer a glimpse of love in years gone by.
Can you spot the romantic connections in our eclectic selection of Valentine’s images?
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Detail of carved marriage lintel above the entrance to the Mill Wynd wing of the Stag Inn, inscribed 'IL.EF 1680', Falkland.
© Crown Copyright: HES (Scottish National Buildings Record)
SC 462886
Font from Kinkell Old Parish Church now in St John's Episcopal Church, Aberdeen. Detail of panel displaying the Arma Christi.
© RCAHMS
SC 506613
Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of Inchmahome Priory, taken from the North West.
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 684079
Detailed view of a cherub on the west fireplace in the first floor drawing room of Egremont House.
© RCAHMS
SC 760072
Detail of painted ceiling in east garden pavilion at Traquair House depicting the 'toilet of Venus'.
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 764678
Detail of wallpaper in the principal floor front hall of Drumlanrig Castle.
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 774491
Detail of plaster cherub in the Tapestry Room of Prestonfield House.
© Crown Copyright: HES (Scottish National Buildings Record)
SC 774501
Detail of decorative ceiling in the cupid room of Prestonfield House.
© Crown Copyright: HES (Scottish National Buildings Record)
SC 890093
The wedding of Elena Cecilia Anne Kinloch, daughter of Sir George Kinloch, and George Palmer, civil engineer outside Meigle House, Perthshire. Titled: "Meigle House Sept 8th 1886".
© RCAHMS
SC 927656
East and West elevations of Sweetheart Abbey.
© Courtesy of HES (National Art Survey of Scotland Collection)
DP 007883
Interior view of Queen's Cross Church from the East showing detail of heart designed stained glass window.
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 1018902
Detail of "ALL THE NOBLE SENTIMENTS OF MY HEART..." plaque in the garden of Little Sparta House.
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 1030905
View of the Swedish artist Einar Forseth and his wife.
© Sir Basil Spence Archive. Courtesy of HES
DP 024104
General oblique aerial view looking towards Loch Ussie centred on the vegetation marks of the heart and flower (centred around NH 5012 5853), taken from the North West.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 039217
Sweetheart Abbey by R W Billings, 1848. The preparatory drawing for the engraved plate for 'The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland.
© RCAHMS
DP 041806
Oblique aerial view centred onTynecastle Park, Heart of Midlothian Football clubs stadium, with the distillery adjacent, taken from the East North-East.
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 1122207
View of the Queen's Post at Edinburgh Castle with couple sitting either side.
© Courtesy of HES (Francis M Chrystal Collection)
SC 1133550
View of garden with Cupid figure at Carberry Tower.
© Courtesy of HES (Carberry Tower Collection)
SC 1137377
Detail of coat of arms above central arched window on north wall of the courtyard at Drumlanrig Castle.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 066472
Bonnar and Company's design for the Triumph of Galatea. Produced for the Dublin Exhibition, 1865.
© Courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland (Bonnar and Company Collection)
DP 069250
Design for cornice with cherubs by Bonnar and Company.
© Courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland (Bonnar and Company Collection)
SC 1222365
Font from Kinkell Old Parish Church now in St John's Episcopal Church, Aberdeen. Detail of panel bearing a shield charged the heart pierced by a sword.
© RCAHMS
SC 1222376
Detail of North wall of Jardine of Castlemilk memorial showing heart shaped stone. Old St Mungo's Parish Church, Kirkbank.
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 1222377
Isa May Kennedy in wedding dress, sitting on a chair. 10 Kingsburgh Road, Murrayfield Edinburgh.
© RCAHMS
SC 1222410
Detail of the Heraldic Shield of the arms of the Earl of Douglas at St Machar's Cathedral, Chanonry, Aberdeen. Shield: Argent, a human heart gules, on a chief azure three stars of the field.
© Historic Scotland
SC 395618
Detail of carved marriage lintel above the entrance to the Mill Wynd wing of the Stag Inn, inscribed 'IL.EF 1680', Falkland.
© Crown Copyright: HES (Scottish National Buildings Record)
SC 462886
Font from Kinkell Old Parish Church now in St John's Episcopal Church, Aberdeen. Detail of panel displaying the Arma Christi.
© RCAHMS
SC 506613
Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of Inchmahome Priory, taken from the North West.
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 684079
Detailed view of a cherub on the west fireplace in the first floor drawing room of Egremont House.
© RCAHMS
SC 760072
Detail of painted ceiling in east garden pavilion at Traquair House depicting the 'toilet of Venus'.
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 764678
Detail of wallpaper in the principal floor front hall of Drumlanrig Castle.
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 774491
Detail of plaster cherub in the Tapestry Room of Prestonfield House.
© Crown Copyright: HES (Scottish National Buildings Record)
SC 774501
Detail of decorative ceiling in the cupid room of Prestonfield House.
© Crown Copyright: HES (Scottish National Buildings Record)
SC 890093
The wedding of Elena Cecilia Anne Kinloch, daughter of Sir George Kinloch, and George Palmer, civil engineer outside Meigle House, Perthshire. Titled: "Meigle House Sept 8th 1886".
© RCAHMS
SC 927656
East and West elevations of Sweetheart Abbey.
© Courtesy of HES (National Art Survey of Scotland Collection)
DP 007883
Interior view of Queen's Cross Church from the East showing detail of heart designed stained glass window.
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 1018902
Detail of "ALL THE NOBLE SENTIMENTS OF MY HEART..." plaque in the garden of Little Sparta House.
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 1030905
View of the Swedish artist Einar Forseth and his wife.
© Sir Basil Spence Archive. Courtesy of HES
DP 024104
General oblique aerial view looking towards Loch Ussie centred on the vegetation marks of the heart and flower (centred around NH 5012 5853), taken from the North West.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 039217
Sweetheart Abbey by R W Billings, 1848. The preparatory drawing for the engraved plate for 'The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland.
© RCAHMS
DP 041806
Oblique aerial view centred onTynecastle Park, Heart of Midlothian Football clubs stadium, with the distillery adjacent, taken from the East North-East.
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 1122207
View of the Queen's Post at Edinburgh Castle with couple sitting either side.
© Courtesy of HES (Francis M Chrystal Collection)
SC 1133550
View of garden with Cupid figure at Carberry Tower.
© Courtesy of HES (Carberry Tower Collection)
SC 1137377
Detail of coat of arms above central arched window on north wall of the courtyard at Drumlanrig Castle.
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 066472
Bonnar and Company's design for the Triumph of Galatea. Produced for the Dublin Exhibition, 1865.
© Courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland (Bonnar and Company Collection)
DP 069250
Design for cornice with cherubs by Bonnar and Company.
© Courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland (Bonnar and Company Collection)
SC 1222365
Font from Kinkell Old Parish Church now in St John's Episcopal Church, Aberdeen. Detail of panel bearing a shield charged the heart pierced by a sword.
© RCAHMS
SC 1222376
Detail of North wall of Jardine of Castlemilk memorial showing heart shaped stone. Old St Mungo's Parish Church, Kirkbank.
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 1222377
Isa May Kennedy in wedding dress, sitting on a chair. 10 Kingsburgh Road, Murrayfield Edinburgh.
© RCAHMS
SC 1222410
Detail of the Heraldic Shield of the arms of the Earl of Douglas at St Machar's Cathedral, Chanonry, Aberdeen. Shield: Argent, a human heart gules, on a chief azure three stars of the field.
© Historic Scotland
DP 092380
View of Bride and Groom leaving St Peters Church, Aintree. Inside cover of PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM 191: THE HONEYMOON TOUR IN SCOTLAND
