Lennoxlove House

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Lennoxlove House

Lennoxlove House , formerly Lethington or Liddingtoun , is a mansion near the Scottish town of Haddington in the East Lothian council area . In 1971 the building was included in the Scottish Monuments List in the highest category A. Furthermore, both the associated sundial and the garden gate are independently classified as Category A structures. Most recently, the surrounding parks are listed in the Scottish Landscape Gardens Register.

history

The Gifford family owned the lands until 1345 (see also Yester Castle ). The property passed to the Maitland family , who built a tower house there in the 15th century , which was the nucleus of Lennoxlove House. Under John Maitland, 1st Earl of Lauderdale , Lethington was revised and expanded in the 1620s. Among other things, the east wing was created here. The work was completed under his son John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale .

After the Duke's death in 1682, the property changed hands several times until Frances Stewart, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox, bought the mansion in which she was born for her cousin Walter Stuart, 6th Lord Blantyre . In response to this generous act, Stuart changed the name of the property from Lethington to Lennoxlove . For the next 200 years Lennoxlove House was inherited within the family. During the 19th century, the property was redesigned several times, including by William Burn . After Charles Stuart, 12th Lord Blantyre died in 1900 without male heirs, the line of Lords Blantyre ended . The property went to Stuart's daughter, whose husband commissioned Robert Lorimer with the restoration and modernization in 1912 . Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton , acquired the property in 1946 in place of Hamilton Palace, which had fallen into disrepair due to mining operations . Today it is the seat of the Dukes of Hamilton from the Douglas family . It contains the furniture and the art collection of the former palace and can be viewed in the summer months.

sundial

The sundial from 1679 forms the center of the garden, which is directly east of the manor house. It consists of a stepped octagonal pedestal on which a 1.21 m high caryatid in contemporary court dress stands. On her head she carries an octagonal, 37 cm high cassette with a total of 17 scales (16 in two rows on the partly beveled sides and one on the top) with copper gnomons . The sundial was moved to this location from Northbar House in Renfrewshire .

Garden gate

The garden gate was designed by Robert Lorimer in 1912. It marks the eastern entrance to the 20th century garden facing Lennoxlove House. The two square posts support an ornate wrought-iron gate. They are made of cut sandstone rubble and close with grooved cornices and stone balls on which putti stand.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  2. ↑ a b Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  3. ↑ a b Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  4. ↑ a b c Garden and Designed Landscape - entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  5. ^ Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
  6. ↑ Entry on Sundial from Lennoxlove House  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)

Web links

Commons : Lennoxlove House  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 55 ° 58 ′ 44.5 "  N , 2 ° 46 ′ 40.2"  W.