Elphinstone Tower
| Elphinstone Tower | ||
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 Ruins of the Elphinstone Tower 2009 |
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| Creation time : | Early 16th century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg (Tower House) | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Scottish nobility | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone | |
| Place: | Dunmore | |
| Geographical location | 56 ° 4 '48.9 " N , 3 ° 47' 4.9" W | |
| Height: | 17 m ASL | |
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Elphinstone Tower , also Dunmore Tower or Airth Tower , is the ruin of a residential tower on the Dunmore Estate , about 1.5 km northwest of Airth and about 9 km west of Stirling in the Scottish administrative unit of Falkirk . Historic Scotland has listed it as a Category C Historic Building.
history
The tower dates from the beginning of the 16th century. Sir John Elphinstone had it built as the seat of the Barony of Elphinstone. In 1754 John Murray , son of the 3rd Earl of Dunmore , bought the property from the Elphinstones for £ 16,000. Two years later, he inherited the Earldom and renamed the property Dunmore Estate after his title . Lord Dunmore had the famous Folly Dunmore Pineapple built elsewhere on the property in 1761 . At some point the tower was expanded, but there is no evidence that it was inhabited. In the 1820s, George Murray, 5th Earl of Dunmore , commissioned the construction of Dunmore Park , the main residence on the estate. The additions to the tower were demolished to make way for the construction of St Andrew's Episcopal Church , a private chapel that was completed in 1850. The tower was later restored and its ground floor converted into a family crypt.
The Murray family left Dunmore in 1911 and the tower has since fallen into disrepair. The St Andrew's Church was demolished in the early 1960s and the northwest corner of the tower collapsed after a storm to the 1968th The base of the tower is 9 meters × 7.4 meters and its walls are 17 meters high up to the parapet.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ a b c d Elphinstone Tower . In: Canmore . Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Retrieved July 7, 2017.
- ^ A b Elphinstone or Dunmore Tower . Falkirk Local History Society. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 7, 2017.
- ↑ St Andrew's Episcopal Church . In: Canmore . Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Retrieved July 7, 2017.
