Lordscairnie Castle
| Lordscairnie Castle | ||
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Mar2006.jpg) Lordscairnie Castle |
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| Creation time : | 15./16. century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg (Tower House) | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Scottish nobility | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone | |
| Place: | Moonzie | |
| Geographical location | 56 ° 20 '53.9 " N , 3 ° 3' 22.7" W | |
| Height: | 70 m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference | |
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Lordscairnie Castle is the ruin of a low castle in the community of Moonzie , about four kilometers northeast of Cupar in the Scottish county of Fife . It is considered a Scheduled Monument .
history
From 1355 Cairnie belonged to the Lindsay family , who later became Earls of Crawford . Alexander Lindsay of Auchtermoonzie († 1517) had the tower built. The fourth son of the 4th Earl of Crawford, Alexander , became the 7th Earl of Crawford and inherited the earldom from his nephew, who fell at the Battle of Flodden Field in 1513 .
According to John Knox , King James V stayed at the castle shortly before his death in 1542 to visit the earl's daughter, who was "one of his whores".
In the 17th century, the castle was uninhabited and served an illegal episcopal community for religious meetings. Later it was used for agricultural purposes.
description
Lordscairnie Castle was originally a tower house with an L-shaped floor plan and five floors, including a ground floor with vaulted ceilings and an attic. The stair tower is on the northwest side and connects all floors with the entrance on the ground floor. The parapet and many of the cladding stones that formed the window frames no longer exist today. To the northeast of the main tower is a single round tower that was once a flanking tower of the gate in an outer enclosure wall .
Possible restoration
In 1996, an American millionaire, Robert Bourne , bought the castle ruins and planned to restore it as a second home for himself and as a retreat for software developers. In 2003, however, he sold the ruin again without having started work.
In 2012 the property was put up for sale again for around £ 220,000. It was estimated that the restoration work would require an investment of at least £ 1 million.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Scheduled Monument - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ a b c Scheduled Monument - entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ^ John Knox: The History of the Reformation of Religion in Scotland . Blackie, Fullarton, & Co .. p. 31, 1831. Retrieved November 13, 2017.
- ↑ Entry on Lordscairnie Castle in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
- ↑ Janet Inglis: Ph.D.-Thesis: Scotland's Castles: rescued, rebuilt and reoccupied, 1945 - 2010 . University of Dundee. S. 159. 2011. Archived from the original on March 22, 2017. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 13, 2017.
- ↑ Land for sale: Moonzie, Fife . Rightmove. Retrieved November 13, 2017.
- ^ Anna Tims: Snooping around - in pictures . In: The Guardian . February 1, 2013. Retrieved November 13, 2017.
