Edingham Castle
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| Creation time : | Beginning of the 16th century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg (Tower House) | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Scottish nobility | |
| Construction: | roughly hewn masonry | |
| Place: | Dalbeattie | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 56 '42.5 " N , 3 ° 48' 48.4" W | |
| Height: | 40 m ASL | |
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Edingham Castle is the ruin of a residential tower about 1.5 km north of Dalbeattie in the Scottish administrative unit Dumfries and Galloway .
history
The building from the beginning of the 16th century had the Livingstones built by Little Airds . The Edingham Munitions Factory is nearby .
description
The remains of the residential tower without a roof take up an area of 8.6 × 7.2 meters and the surrounding bawn (wall) an area of about 17 × 12 meters. The castle is said to have been built as a four-story tower house. In the late 18th century it is said to have been reduced to two floors by the owner family and only sold as a roofless ruin around 1872. The ruin is now a Scheduled Monument .
The walls are up to 2.8 meters thick on the east side and 4.7 meters on the west side. There are small windows on three sides. The entrance is in the northwest. A staircase with a landing leads from the vestibule to the first floor, of which only a gable wall in the southwest has been preserved. Two entrances lead from the vestibule to the vaulted cellar . The ruin also shows the remains of the surrounding defensive wall (called bawn in English ).
Nearby is the Edingham Moth .
literature
- Martin Coventry: The Castles of Scotland . Goblinshead, 2000. ISBN 978-1-899874-26-2 .
- Alastair MT Maxwell-Irving: The Border Towers of Scotland - Their History and Architecture . 2000. ISBN 978-1-899316-31-1 . Chapter: The West March .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Entry on Edingham Castle in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
- ↑ a b Scheduled Monument - entry . In: Historic Scotland .
