Glamis Tower
Glamis Tower | |
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Alternative name (s): | Glamis Castle |
Creation time : | 14th Century |
Castle type : | Niederungsburg (Tower House) |
Conservation status: | tore off |
Standing position : | Scottish royalty |
Construction: | Quarry stone |
Place: | Kinghorn |
Geographical location | 56 ° 4 '16.3 " N , 3 ° 10' 34.3" W |
Glamis Tower , also Glamis Castle , was a tower house in the town of Kinghorn in the Scottish county of Fife . The tower was behind the high street .
When Sir John Lyon, Lord of Glamis , married Princess Johanna , daughter of King Robert II , in 1373 , Glamis Castle was part of her dowry. In 1543 the dilapidated Glamis Tower was rebuilt, but in 1546 it was besieged and captured by James Kirkcaldy of Grange . Today nothing is left of the castle and its area was built on with residential houses in modern times.