Fa'side Castle
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 Fa'side Castle |
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| Alternative name (s): | Falside Castle, Fawside Castle | |
| Creation time : | 15th century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg (Donjon) | |
| Conservation status: | restored | |
| Standing position : | Scottish nobility | |
| Construction: | plastered masonry | |
| Place: | Tranquil | |
| Geographical location | 55 ° 55 '40.4 " N , 2 ° 59' 51" W | |
| Height: | 112 m ASL | |
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Fa'side Castle , also Fawside, Falside, Ffauside, Fauxside or Fawsyde , is a castle about 3 km southwest of Tranent and about 3 km southeast of Musselburgh in the Scottish administrative unit East Lothian . The 15th century building was restored in the 1980s and Historic Scotland listed it as a Category B Historic Building.
history
The name comes from 1189, when the monks of Newbattle Abbey gave the land to Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester , so that he should build a castle on it. The estate was owned by Alan la Zouche, 1st Baron la Zouche of Ashby , son-in-law of Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester when it was besieged by Sir William Douglas in 1288 . After the Quincy family declared their loyalty to King Edward I of England , they lost the property to King Robert the Bruce . Robert the Bruce loaned it to the Seton family .
The Fawsydes acquired land in the area from the Setons in 1371. The oldest parts of the current building had the Fawsydes built in the 15th century.
Before the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh , which took place near Fa'side Castle on September 10, 1547, the castle was burned to the ground and anyone still in the building was burned or suffocated. Mary Queen of Scots left Fa'side Castle on the morning of June 15, 1567 for the Battle of Carberry Hill . She had previously put on a short skirt and left her fine clothes in a chest.
At the end of the 16th century the castle was rebuilt and extended to the south. The Fawsydes sold them in 1631 to an Edinburgh citizen and merchant named Hamilton . Fa'side Castle fell into ruin in the 19th century and should be completely demolished in the 1970s. But it was bought by Thomas Moodie Craig . The writer and historian Nigel Tranter founded the Fa'side Restoration Society in 1970 with the help of the St Andrews Society of East Lothian, which gave Craig the idea of buying it in 1975. An investigation revealed that the original name of the castle was Fawside Castle . Restoration work began in 1976 and was completed in 1982.
Today the castle is still in private hands. There is also a horse breeding facility and a guesthouse on the property.
description
Fa'side Castle has an L-shaped floor plan. It consists of a four-storey donjon from the 15th century and a block with tourelles added later . The ground floor has a vaulted ceiling . The castle stands on a high range of hills with a good view of the East Lothian landscape and the Firth of Forth .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ^ Bedford, Charles: Notice of the Fawsydes of that ilk . Pp. 370-383. 1889.
- ↑ Annie I. Cameron: Warrender Papers . SHS (1931). P. 50. Inventory list of the chest: Calderwood: Historie of the Kirk of Scotland . Volume 2. 1843. p. 363: James Aikman (translator): History of Scotland by George Buchanan . Volume 2. 1827. p. 522.
swell
- Martin Coventry: The Castles of Scotland . Goblinshead, 2001.
- Maurice Lindsay: The Castles of Scotland . Constable, 1986.
- Mike Salter: The Castles of Lothian and The Borders . Folly Publications, 1994. ISBN 1-871731-20-8 .
