Arthurstone House, Walled Garden, 'antiquarian Corner'
Architectural Fragment(S) (Medieval)
Site Name Arthurstone House, Walled Garden, 'antiquarian Corner'
Classification Architectural Fragment(S) (Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Arthurston House; Arthurstone House Policies
Canmore ID 30832
Site Number NO24SE 69.07
NGR NO 26149 43133
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/30832
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Coupar Angus
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
Field Visit (5 September 1989)
NO24SE 69.07 26149 43133
At Arthurstone, in reuse in the walled garden (NO24SE 69.03), summer house (NO24SE 69.01) and outbuildings, there are a number of architectural fragments either from Coupar Angus Abbey (NO23NW 13.00) or from the burgh (NO24SW 49):
1. (NO 2612 4295) In re-use as rybats to a gate opening onto an annexe of the walled garden, there are a fragment of a moulded rib (transitional) and two moulded voussoirs (quirked edge-roll and fillet, 16th century). On the S side of the N wall, there is a water-leaf capital (12th/13th century), a conical capital with convex section (14th century), fragments of what may be a marriage-lintel and a doorway of 1749 (from Coupar Angus). In a mural recess, there is a tapered slab bearing in high relief the figure of Christ in Majesty, framed by a ribbed, trefoil-headed and pinnacled canopy, and beneath, two standing figures, robed and holding aloft a child in prayer. The slab is probably funereal, evidently for a person of distinction and maybe of late 13th- or 14th-century date. On the N side of the same wall, there is a fragment of a mullion.
2. (NO 2620 4314) Within the walled garden NO24SE 69.03, there is a sundial-head (late medieval, set in a modern shaft). Other architectural fragments are in re-use in a rockery, and beside the summerhouse there are a number of moulded rib-sections and two Ionic capitals.
3. (NO 2632 4309) A number of moulded rib-sections of transitional and 14th-century date are incorporated into a mural recess in the W wall of an outbuilding. A lintel wrought with a stepped-chamfer is in re-use
in a doorway of a neighbouring cottage.
4. (NO 2631 4312) In re-use in the dovecot (NO24SE 69.06), which was removed from Coupar Angus and re-erected at Arthurstone in the 14th century, there are a heel-moulding, an engaged shaft and a scalloped capital (late medieval).
5. (NO 2614 4297) A dormer pediment bearing the name COLINE CAMPBELL, his arms and initials, is incorporated into the W side of an octagonal, four-storey crenellated tower to the front of Arthurstone House.
Visited by RCAHMS (IMS), 5 September 1989.
