Kinnairdy Castle
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 Kinnairdy Castle |
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| Alternative name (s): | Old Kinnairdy | |
| Creation time : | 1420 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg (Tower House) | |
| Conservation status: | restored | |
| Standing position : | Scottish nobility | |
| Place: | Aberchirder | |
| Geographical location | 57 ° 32 '12.1 " N , 2 ° 39' 17.3" W | |
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Kinnairdy Castle is a tower house about 3 km south of Aberchirder in the Scottish county of Aberdeenshire . It is also called Old Kinnairdy .
history
The Niederungsburg was built on land that belonged to the Innes clan at the end of the 14th century . A first stone tower with six stories and a level, crenellated roof was built in 1420 and again replaced a wooden moth . The tower was later shortened by two stories. In 1629 the Innes family sold the property to Sir James Crichton of Frendraught . In 1647 the Reverend John Gregory was the owner; then it fell to his brother David , a doctor who claimed to have built the first barometer . David's success in weather forecasting by his barometer led to charges of witchcraft , but he was not convicted. The property was sold by his third son to Thomas Donaldson , a merchant from Elgin , who had the castle restored, re-covered and converted into a country house in the course of the 18th century . In 1923 the property fell back to the Innes family and they had Kinnairdy Castle restored again.
description
Kinnairdy Castle consists of a tower house with an L-shaped floor plan to which a stair tower was added. The entrance was originally on the first floor and was reached by a movable wooden bridge from the parapet wall. There are straight stairs to the ground floor; this floor has vaulted ceilings . A two-story hall building from the end of the 16th century lies east of the tower. It was rebuilt in 1857.
In the knight's hall there is a tabernacle clad in oak . The carvings on it, which are particularly fine, represent the heads of Sir Alexander Innes and his wife Christine, nee. Dunbar , and next to it the year 1493 is carved. Sir Alexander seems to have got into financial difficulties because of his fondness for fine Flemish wood paneling.
Sir Thoams Innes of Learney , Lord Lyon King of Arms , introduced some heraldic ornaments in the house that belonged to him after World War II .
Outbuildings and walls form a courtyard to the south and east of the tower; there are steep slopes to the north and west.
Historic Scotland has listed Kinnairdy Castle as a Category A Historic Building.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Maurice Lindsay: The Castles of Scotland . Constable, 1986, ISBN 0-09-473430-5 , p. 317
- ↑ a b c Kinnairdy Castle . In: Canmore . Retrieved October 19, 2017.
- ↑ a b c d e Kinnairdy Castle . In: British Listed Buildings . Retrieved October 19, 2017.
- ^ Charles McKean: Banff & Buchan . Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland. 1990. Retrieved October 19, 2017.
- ↑ Gregory . [family] . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 12 : Gichtel - harmonium . London 1910, p. 576 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).