Gilbertfield Castle
| Gilbertfield Castle | ||
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 Gilbertfield Castle from the northeast |
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| Creation time : | 1607 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg (Tower House) | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Scottish nobility | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone | |
| Place: | Cambuslang | |
| Geographical location | 55 ° 48 '10.6 " N , 4 ° 9' 2.2" W | |
| Height: | 96 m ASL | |
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Gilbertfield Castle is the ruin of a low castle in the Scottish administrative division of South Lanarkshire . The castle was built in the 17th century on the north slope of Dechmont Hill , just outside Cambuslang, southeast of Glasgow .
history
The castle is located in the former Barony Drumsgard that the Clan Hamilton belonged. The castle was built in the early 17th century; a coat of arms above the door shows the year 1607. At the turn of the 18th century, William Hamilton of Gilbertfield (1665–1751), a retired soldier and writer, lived there. He was a friend of the poet Allan Ramsay and was responsible for the translation of Blind Harry's heroic poem The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace .
architecture
Gilbertfield Castle was a well-planned tower house with an L-shaped floor plan. The stair tower protruding north was large enough for a series of rooms and a square-plan staircase.
The ground floor had a vaulted ceiling and contained storage rooms and a kitchen, which was equipped with a large stove with an oven. A staircase for the servants connected the ground floor with the knight's hall above. The great hall itself had a smaller, open fireplace and large windows with decorative loopholes in between. Above the knight's hall there were two more floors, each with three rooms, two in the main building and one in the annex. On the top floor, the attic, there was a round tourelle on the south-east and north-west corners . There was no parapet.
The castle is now a neglected ruin. The east wall collapsed in the 1950s. The northwestern Tourelle fell down in the late 1960s, only its consoles remain. The ruin is classified as very dangerous because many stones have fallen down every year. The southeast wing collapsed in the 1970s. Gilbertfield Castle is a Scheduled Monument .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Scheduled Monument - entry . In: Historic Scotland .
swell
- Gordon Mason: The Castles of Glasgow and the Clyde . Goblinshead, 2000
- Mike Salter: The Castles of South West Scotland . Folly Publications, 1993
