Fingask Castle
Fingask Castle is a country house about 60 meters above the village of Rait and 5 km northeast of the village of Errol on the edge of the Sidlaw Hills in the Scottish administrative division of Perth and Kinross . From the house the view goes over the Carse of Gowrie as well as the Firth of Tay and further over the Kingdom of Fife . The name of the house is derived from the Scottish Gaelic "fionn-gasg" (German: white or light-colored appendix).
Fingask was once an explicitly sacred place, a pleasant and numenous stop between the abbeys of Falkirk and Scone . Later it belonged to the Bruce family and then to the Threiplands . Jacobites lived there in the 18th century and so it was forfeited to the crown. Since 1969 the property has belonged to the Threiplands again . While the house is still a place of pilgrimage , it is better known for its garden and parties in it. Fingask Castle, described by an unknown author as the “jewel in the bosom of a canyon”, is also home to the Fingask Follies , an annual music event in late May or early June. Historic Scotland has listed the cottage as a Category B Historic Building and the property is on the Inventory of Historic Gardens and Designed Landscapes .
Architectural history in pictures
'' John Preston Neale '', 1824.
Engraving on copper plate, '' John Greig '' after a drawing by '' Henry Gastineau '' around 1830.
Fingask Castle from the south, drawn and engraved by '' Alexander Carse '' around 1831.
Postcard from Fingask Castle sent to Oxford by Errol, franked 15th August 1910.
Fingask Castle from the south-southeast with the decorations from the 19th century that have since been torn down.
View from the southwest: Fingask Castle and garden as it was between the 1830s and the 1920s.
Postcard before 1920: view from the south-southwest.
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history
The lands of Fingask are mentioned in the founding charter of Scone Abbey issued by King Alexander I. The charter is said to date from 1114 or 1115. The Bruce clan had owned the lands of Rait, including Fingask , since the 15th century . The Bruces descended from the older line of Bruces from Clackmannan , from which Sir David Bruce came, who married Janet , the daughter of Sir William Stirling from Keir . Her son, Robert Bruce , owned the lands of Rate ( Rait ) in 1484, which was confirmed in 1488, and his son David gave up his rights to Clackmannan in February 1506 or 1507 in favor of his uncle. When Patrick was Bruce Laird of Fingask, a stone was set in the house showing the year 1594. On a tombstone by the church ruins of Rait it says:
“Here lies Jonet Gibsone, wife of William Bruce
Laird von Fingask, who gave birth to him (…) children, of
which they outlived five male children who
lived together for 18 years
and with her 33 years.
She died on the last [day] of April Anno Domini 1647. "
Fingask's last laird of the Bruce family was Lawrence Bruce , whose "pecuniary commitments forced the estate to be sold to his lenders in 1671."
The Baronets Threipland
1672 bought Patrick Threipland the property, which in the same year to a barony was raised. He had the building renovated and the gardens laid out and in 1674 he added the neighboring Tower House '' Braes of the Carse '' with land in Kincaird to his possessions. In the same year he was knighted for his diligence in subjugating the Kovenanters and in 1687 he was made Baronet of Nova Scotia , but died in 1689 as a prisoner in Stirling Castle for being a follower of the displaced King James VII .
His son David , the 2nd Baronet, (approx. 1670-1746), joined the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715 and fought with the Earl of Mar against the government in the Battle of Sheriffmuir . When the uprising was put down, he was stripped of the title of baronet by parliamentary resolution and forfeited Fingask Castle and his estate. Fingask Castle was bought for £ 9606 6s 4.5d from York Buildings Company , an English waterworks company specializing in buying up forfeited land. The company owned the property until 1783 and had leased it to Lady Katherine Threipland , "the girl from Gowrie" († March 18, 1762), daughter of the 2nd Baronet.
In 1745, Fingask Castle was badly damaged by government troops as the Threiplands again supported the rebels during the second Jacobite revolt. David Threipland (1694–1745), son of the 2nd Baronet, died in the Battle of Prestonpans . His half-brother, Dr. Stuart Threipland (1716-1805) bought the property back from Fingask in 1783 in a sale of forfeited land for £ 12,207. He married in 1753 his first wife in St. Paul's Church in Edinburgh Jannet , daughter of David Sinclair from Southdun in Caithness and his second wife in 1761 in the same church Jannet , daughter of Richard Murray from Pennyland , heiress of her cousin Grizel Budge († 1798) of Dale & Toftingale in Hallkirk in Caithness. His sister, Miss Euphame Threipland (1713–?) Is said to have managed the property in his absence. Dr. Threipland was President of the Royal Medical Society from 1766 .
In 1826, the deprivation of the dignity of the baronet of 1715 was repealed by a parliamentary act and Sir Patrick Budge Murray Threipland (1762-1837), a lawyer , received the baronet back. He later served as Deputy Lieutenant for Perthshire and Caithness. In 1792 he married his second cousin, Jessy († 1855), daughter of William Scott Kerr from Chatto or Thirlestone . Her grandmother was the daughter of Sir David Threipland, 2nd Baronet , and his first wife. From 1828 to 1831 Sir Partrick had the front of the western part of the house built. Decorations and construction work on the south facade continued until 1840.
Sir Patrick Murray Threipland, 5th Baronet , (1800-1882) was educated in Edinburgh and Paris . He served as a major in the Perth Militia and retired in 1843. He was the Commissioner for Supply for the counties of Perth and Caithness. He was also Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant of Perth and Caithness.
Before and after his mother's death in 1855, he lived in Fingask Castle with his three older sisters. The March 31, 1851 census lists seven employees at Fingask Castle: Caretaker ( Jean Oswald ), Maid ( Mary Gray ), Cook ( Margaret Stewart ), Sir Peter's House Maid ( Mary McLagan ), Butler ( David Chalmers ), Lakei ( John Bertram ) and coachman ( Andrew David ). Mrs Drummond of Megginch Castle described the family:
“Sir Patrick Threipland lived there and occasionally in Toftingall (Caithness) with his three sisters, Miss Jessie (approx. 1796–1871) - the clever, pleasant hostess -, Miss Eliza (approx. 1798–?) - sarcastic and sharp-tongued , the manager of the stables - and Miss Catherine (approx. 1799–?) - the gardener, much less clever, but with a lot more sweetness than any of her sisters. "
When Miss Jessie died in May 1871, Mrs. Drummond reported that "life said goodbye to the old house." With the death of Sir Patrick in 1882, the title of Baronets Threipland was suspended. Fingask Castle fell to the second son of the first cousin, William Scott Kerr , who then changed his name to "William Murray Threipland". In 1915 he was appointed commander of the newly formed Welsh Guards and in 1937 became a colonel of the regiment.
Other owners
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In 1917, Fingask Castle again fell into other hands; the whiskey dealer Sir John Henderson Stewart, 1st Baronet , bought it. This year the property was 10.3 km². It consisted of 4.3 km² of arable land, 5.6 km² of hills and 0.4 km² of forest. The lease for Fingask and the much smaller property Kinnaird and inches Michael (which he had added his lands) gave Sir John yearly £ 4000. However, Sir John indebted because of Prohibition in the United States very much and committed suicide on February 6, 1924 suicide . The property was bought by HB Gilroy from Ballumbie in 1925 . The house was saved from ruin, but completely rebuilt; all spiral staircases have been removed and the front extensions from the 19th century demolished.
Return to the Threipland family
In 1969, Fingask Castle returned to the Threipland family; Mark Stepney Murray Threipland , grandson of Colonel William Murray Threipland, bought it. Mark was the son of Patrick Murray Threipland and his wife Marged , b. Howard Stepney (a descendant of the 2nd Lord Tabley and Jerome de Salis and a number of others). At that time the property was only 30 hectares. Mark, his wife Molly, and their son, Gavin , lived there for 25 years and had hundreds of trees planted during that time. In 1996 Andrew Murray Threipland , son of Patrick Murray Threipland and his wife Leslie , b. McNair Scott , Fingask Castle.
Portraits of the people associated with Fingask Castle
Sir David Threipland 2. Baronet (1666–1746) as a boy
Dame Katherine (approx. 1679–1762), daughter of David Smythe from Barnhill and second wife of Sir David Threipland
Dr. (Sir) Stuart Threipland
Charles Spence (1779–1869), the bard of Gowrie, the “Poet of the Carse”, Lakei and builder of the Threiplands
Jessy Scott Kerr married her cousin Sir Patrick Threipland in 1792. She had four children and died in 1855.
Eliza Threipland
Jessie Threipland
The cottage
The country house itself dates from 1592 and was built around a building from the 12th century. From 1828 to 1840 extensions were made in the south and west. Sir Patrick Threipland, 4th Baronet , (1762–1837) had the park laid out, his son planted the topiary gardens and erected the statues.
Gardens
The gardens are known for their topiary, but you can also find The Pavilion , a picturesque building for entertainment, weddings, etc. There are statues of David Anderson , a sculptor from Perth, who depict characters from Scottish literature. The figures shown are z. B. Alexander Wilson's ' 'Watty and Mag' ', Burns' Willie Brew'd a Peck o' Maut, And Ra band Allan cam 'tae Pree , Sir Walter Scotts The Lay of the Last Ministrel and Burns' Tam o' Shanter and Kate . Other statues by other sculptors include the nude, black figure of Doryphorus , a life-size statue of William Pitt the Younger, and some smaller pieces created by Charles Spence . Next to the road in a sheltered valley is the source of St. Peter with the Linn-ma-Gray brook next to it. On a stone above the spring you can read the corresponding lines:
"Drink, exhausted pilgrim, drink and pray,
And bless the spring of St. Peter,
unscathed by the sun or the scorching ray,
Or frost or meltwater."
Views of the Gardens of Fingask
Statues of '' Charles Spence '' in a 19th century compilation.
Statues facing south, towards Fife.
From the north: Tam o 'Shanter and his friends drinking at Kirkton Jean's : "(...) While we sit bousing at the nappy, An' getting fou and unco happy (...)"
Wilsons Meg and Watty , oriented by Charles Spence from north, south, towards Fife.
The Fingask Follies
The Fingask Follies are an annual, professional musical revue on a topic that the current owner, Andrew Threipland and his wife Helen b. Molchanoff , in Fingask. The show consists of two acts of 35 minutes each with an hour break for dinner. The '' Fingask Follies '' just finished their 21st season. The title was " Ha-Ha !" in homage to Capability Brown's 300th birthday.
For 2017 the tour is called "Second Helpings - there is always room for more".
Fingask Castle Subscription Mural
This mural by Ivan Govorkov and Lena Gubanova from St. Petersburg is designed to raise money for the Fingask Follies . The wall painting, which is 4572 mm × 2540 mm in size, is supplemented every spring and already comprises almost 60 objects, including 35 portraits. You can see portraits of the cartridge of the Fingask Follies , Sir James Cayzer , Vicky Jardine Patterson , Claire Enders , Heloise Thomson , Chic Murray , a cat, Harry Wood (sponsored by Alexander McCall Smith ), Richard Marner , Sir Mark and Lady Judy Moody- See Stuart and Follies cast member Lofty Buchanan . This is thought to be the only active subscription portrait that z. Z. exists.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Listed Building: Fingask Castle . Historic Scotland. Retrieved July 19, 2017.
- ↑ a b c d e Inventory Garden & Designed Landscape: Fingask Castle . Historic Scotland. Retrieved July 19, 2017.
- ^ John Preston Neale: Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Second series . Volume IV. 1824. p. 228. Engraved by William Alexander Le Petit (1804-1896).
- ↑ Views in Scotland . Undated collection of engravings. P. 157.
- ↑ James Knox: The Topography of the Basin of the Tay . Edinburgh March 31, 1831.
- ↑ Liber de Scon . P. 2.
- ↑ Lawrence Melville: The Fair Lady of Gowrie . William Culross & Son, Coupar Angus 1939 (1975). Chapter 27. P. 119.
- ↑ Lawrence Melville: The Fair Lady of Gowrie . William Culross & Son, Coupar Angus 1939 (1975). Chapter 27. P. 122.
- ^ Tim Longville: Fine Frolics at Fingask in Country Life . October 19, 2006. Released on FingaskCastle.com . Retrieved July 20, 2017.
Web links
Coordinates: 56 ° 25 ′ 59 ″ N , 3 ° 15 ′ 13 ″ W.