Dryhope Tower
Dryhope Tower is the ruin of a Peel Tower in the valley of Yarrow Water in the Scottish county of Selkirkshire (now part of the Scottish Borders administrative division ). It is about halfway between Moffat and Selkirk and served to protect the northeast end of St Mary's Loch . The area of the Peel Tower was protected on two sides by creeks, in the east by the Dryhope Burn and in the west by the Kirkstead Burn .
architecture
The Dryhope Tower, built from existing stone, was originally a four-story building; the lower two floors had vaulted ceilings . The tower lies in the remains of a stone enclosure that also enclosed other buildings.
history
The tower was believed to have been built under the statutes of the Scottish Parliament of 1555, which required large landowners on the border with England to build whitewashed stone fencing that was sixty feet (18 meters) square and one cubit (0, 94 meters) thick and six cubits high "for the retreat and defense of himself, his tenants and his relatives in troubled times".
The tower belonged to the Scotts of Dryhope , and a daughter of the house, Mary Scott , was Flower of Yarrow (dt .: yarrow flower called) and was an ancestor of Sir Walter Scott . Mary was married to Wat Scott of Kirkhope Tower , a notorious Border Reiver . The estate fell to Wat Scott's family, the Scotts von Harden and Wat Scott took possession of Dryhope Castle immediately after the marriage. In 1592 Wat Scott fell to King James VI. disgraced for making common cause with Francis Stewart, 1st Earl of Bothwell . King Jacob raised an army, advanced through the forest and dragged many of his opponents' houses. Wat Scott couldn't escape, and Dryhope Tower was one of the Scotts of Harden's fortresses that were razed. The tower appears to have been rebuilt in 1613, but then fell into disrepair in the late 17th century. The ruin was bought by an older branch of the Scotts, the Dukes of Buccleuch .
Dryhope Tower is now part of the Philiphaugh Estates , and stabilization work was recently carried out on it.
Individual evidence
- ^ David McGibbon: The Castallated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland from the twelfth to the eighteenth Century . 1887. pp. 406-407. Chapter: Kirkhope Tower - Fourth Period . Retrieved on Jun 21, 2017.
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Coordinates: 55 ° 30 ′ 39 " N , 3 ° 9 ′ 42" W