Glenapp Castle

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Glenapp Castle from the southeast
Glenapp Castle from the northwest

Glenapp Castle is a castle about 1.5 miles southeast of Ballantrae in the Scottish administrative division of South Ayrshire . The former family home of the Earls of Inchcape is now a luxury hotel and restaurant .

history

Deputy Lieutenant James Hunter had the castle built in 1870. There is no older origin. The building was designed by the well-known Scottish architect David Bryce , then Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire , and completed in 1870. It's a notable example of the Scottish Baronial Style. The castle belonged to the Earls of Inchcape from 1917 to the early 1980s. Aviation pioneer and actress Elsie Mackay , daughter of James Mackay, 1st Earl of Inchcape , lived in the castle until her untimely death in 1928 when she tried to cross the Atlantic in a single-engine Stinson Detroiter . The castle hotel was opened in 2000. The property is only accessible to guests of the hotel or the restaurant. Historic Scotland has listed Glenapp Castle as a Category B Historic Building.

Location

From Glenapp Castle near Ballantrae you have a good view of various Scottish islands: Ailsa Craig , Arran and Mull of Kintyre . Also nearby are the Galloway Forest Park , Mull of Galloway , Culzean Castle and various botanical gardens such as Logans Garden and Castle Kennedy Gardens . The castle and its outbuildings are almost 1.5 km from the entrance gate to the property.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Martin Coventry: The Castles of Scotland . Goblinshead, Musselburgh 2001. ISBN 1-899874-26-7 . P. 190.
  2. ↑ a b Glenapp Castle - History . GlenappCastle.com. Retrieved August 3, 2017.
  3. ↑ Glenapp Castle - Time to Reconnect - Escape to Glenapp Castle . GlenappCastle.com. Retrieved August 3, 2017.
  4. Jump up ↑ Hunter Clan - Cursum Perficio . Scotland in Oils. Retrieved August 3, 2017.
  5. ↑ Tina Rosenberg: Glenapp Castle: A Scottish Intrigue . iUniverse, Bloomington (IN), 2010. ISBN 1-4401-9714-8 .
  6. ↑ BBC Radio 4 Making History - Elsie Mackay . BBC Online. Retrieved August 3, 2017.
  7. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .

Web links

Commons : Glenapp Castle  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 55 ° 5 ′ 2.8 ″  N , 4 ° 59 ′ 18.5 ″  W.