Barnes Castle
Barnes Castle is an unfinished castle ruin on a slope of the Garleton Hills about 3 miles northeast of Haddington and near Athelstaneford in the East Lothian administrative division of Scotland . The remains are also called Barney Vaults . The complex is listed as a Scheduled Monument .
history
John Seton, Lord Barns , diplomat at the court of King Philip II of Spain , later Treasurer of the Household of King James VI. of Scotland and James I of England and associate member of the Court of Session , who died in 1594, had the construction of the castle begin.
description
The facility covers an area of 49 meters × 38 meters. The buildings should be laid out around a castle courtyard. For the time it was a modern and symmetrical building.
But it remained with a vaulted basement and mainly low foundation walls on the ground floor. The highest remains of the wall reach 4.3 meters. Corner towers are placed at the four corners; There are only rudimentary intermediate towers, two on the northwest facade and one each on the southeast and southwest facade. Only the two towers in the northwest show the beginnings of an upper floor. The entrance gate was in the middle in the southwestern intermediate tower.
The walls are made of rough quarry stone . The corner stones, if available, are made of stone , as are the borders of the loopholes and window bars . The loopholes provide a view of every corner of the outer wall.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ Scheduled Monument - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
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Coordinates: 55 ° 58 ′ 47 " N , 2 ° 45 ′ 25.1" W.