Buchanan Auld House
Buchanan Auld House (English Buchanan Old House ) is the ruin of a country house about 2.5 km west of the village of Drymen in the Scottish county of Stirlingshire (now the administrative unit of Stirling ). The house belonged to the Buchanan clan and was their historical seat from 1231 to 1682 at the latest. After the death of the clan chief John Buchanan at the end of the 17th century, the property fell to the Graham clan . In the 18th century, the Grahams had the house significantly rebuilt. The house burned down in the mid-19th century and in 1852 James Graham, 4th Duke of Montrose , had Buchanan Castle built as a replacement. The ruins of the old country house are now part of the courtyard that belongs to the clubhouse of the Buchanan Castle Golf Club . Historic Scotland has listed it as a Category C Historic Building.
history
In the reign of Maldwin, Mormaer of Lennox , (1217-1250) Anselan received the island of Clairinsh in Loch Lomond in 1225 as a fief. Anselan is referred to in the certificate as "clericus meus" (German: my employee). He is later referred to as Absalom de Buchanan and it is concluded that he must have received further fiefs in the Buchanan community in order to use this title. During the reign of King Alexander II (1214-1249) Gilbert de Buchanan , Seneschal of the Earl of Lennox, received a charter in 1231 that confirmed Clairinch and the other lands in Buchanan. From the lands of Buchanan the name of the clan was derived. Buchanan Auld House became the seat of clan chiefs for the next 450 years until the 22nd clan chief, John Buchanan, died without male offspring in 1682. Despite attempts to make arrangements for the passing of the title of clan chief to the descendants of his daughters, such an arrangement never came to a conclusion. John Buchanan had inherited substantial debts and during his time as clan chief he had to gradually sell parts of the Buchanan lands in order to satisfy his creditors. Having no male heirs, the line of clan chiefs ended on his death.
The property was bought by James Graham, 3rd Marquess of Montrose , in 1682 and it later replaced Magdock Castle as the seat of Clan Graham; it was considered more fitting than a marquess's apartment. The family had the house completely rebuilt around 1724. The architect '' William Adam '' completed drawings for the house and the surrounding park in 1745. In 1790 William Henry Playfair was commissioned by James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose , to design changes to the house. The 4th Duke and his wife bred and trained racehorses on the property in the 19th century.
Buchanan Auld House was destroyed by fire in 1852 and the architect William Burn was commissioned to design a replacement for it. Burn designed an extravagant country house in the Scottish Baronial Style by integrating a residential tower with an L-shaped floor plan into a hodgepodge of tourelles , watch towers and stepped gables . This is how Buchanan Castle was built, which was built between 1852 and 1858 about 800 meters southeast of the ruins of the old country house. The ruins of Buchanan Auld House, which also contains some of the original servants' apartments, still exist today as part of a courtyard adjacent to the clubhouse of Buchanan Castle Golf Club .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ^ National Archive of Scotland, RH1 / 2/40
- ↑ Buchanan of Auchmar. P. 20.
- ↑ Buchanan of Auchmar. P. 21.
- ↑ Buchanan of Auchmar. P. 30.
- ↑ a b Garden and Designed Landscape - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
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Coordinates: 56 ° 4 ′ 1 ″ N , 4 ° 28 ′ 48 ″ W.