Gight Castle
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| Creation time : | 1560 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg (Tower House) | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Scottish nobility | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone | |
| Place: | Fyvie | |
| Geographical location | 57 ° 26 '34.5 " N , 2 ° 17' 26.4" W | |
| Height: | 54 m ASL | |
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Gight Castle is a ruined castle about 6.5 km east of the village of Fyvie in the Scottish county of Aberdeenshire .
history
Around 1480, the Gordon clan acquired Gight's land. The 2nd Laird, George Gordon , had an L-shaped tower house built around 1560 on the land he had inherited from his father. The 1st Laird was killed in the Battle of Flodden Field .
Catherine Gordon-Byron was Gight's 13th and final laird. Her husband, "Mad" Jack Byron , had gambled away his fortune and in 1787 the couple had to sell Gight Castle. The two were the parents of the future poet Lord Byron , who was born a year after the castle was sold.
The 3rd Earl of Aberdeen bought the castle for his son, George Gordon, Lord Haddo and his wife Charlotte, nee. Baird . The couple's son was former British Prime Minister George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen . Lord Haddo was killed in a riding accident, the castle was abandoned and fell into disrepair.
architecture
The footprint of the L-shaped castle was 20.74 meters × 16.16 meters. The entrance is in the main building, a little away from the interior corner of the house. It leads into a vestibule with a vaulted ceiling with various coats of arms. A corridor connects the vestibule with the other rooms on the ground floor - two storage cellars with vaulted ceilings and a bakery in the main building and a kitchen in the extension - as well as the stairs to the upper floors in the transition area between the main building and the extension. The knight's hall in the main building and private rooms in the annex are on the first floor . In between there is a small bedroom with a vaulted ceiling. The other upper floors are no longer preserved today. A wing was added later in the northeast.
The ruin of Gight Castle is a Scheduled Monument .
Ghosts
It is said that the ruins of Gight Castle are haunted by the ghost of a bagpiper who never returned from exploring an underground passage. Even today you can supposedly hear the tones of his instrument.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Gight Castle . About Aberdeen. Retrieved July 25, 2017.
- ↑ a b Scheduled Monument: Gight Castle . Historic Scotland. Retrieved July 25, 2017.
