Panmure Castle
| Panmure Castle | ||
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| Creation time : | around 1224 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Scottish nobility | |
| Place: | Muirdrum | |
| Geographical location | 56 ° 31 '41.5 " N , 2 ° 44' 34.4" W | |
| Height: | 84 m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference | |
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Panmure Castle is the ruin of a low castle northwest of the village of Muirdrum in the Scottish county of Angus .
history
The castle belonged to the De Valogne family and then fell to Peter Maule of Fowlis (see Le Riche ) through his marriage to Christina de Valogne . Peter Maule probably had a stone castle built there around 1224, which was destroyed by Andrew Murray of Avoch and Petty in 1306 during the first Scottish War of Independence to prevent occupation by the English .
It is not known when the castle was rebuilt, but the new castle chapel was consecrated to Saint Mary in 1487 . After the Battle of Flodden Field in 1513 Sir Robert Maule had a new knight's hall built on the north side of the castle and a round tower on the north-west corner.
The Maule of Panmure family had their seat at the castle from the 13th to the 17th century; then they moved to Panmure House .
Today the ruins of the castle are a Scheduled Monument .
description
The castle was built in the shape of a rhomboid ; in north-south direction it measured 34 meters, in east-west direction 36 meters. At each of its corners it was provided with a protruding tower. The north-west tower covered an area of 11.25 meters × 11.25 meters, the northeast tower one of 7.3 meters × 7.3 meters. The other two towers were 7.3 meters by 8.2 meters. All walls were 2.13 meters thick.
The ruins are now thickly overgrown with bushes and trees. While the walls on the south side are about 2 meters high, they are still about 0.8 meters high in the south. Almost nothing is left of the two southern towers. In the middle of the courtyard there is a fountain that is covered with an iron grille.
To the north of the castle ruins is a rampart made of earth with a deep ditch that is mostly filled with water. In 1969 the castle ruins and defensive walls were listed as two different Scheduled Monuments, but today it is believed that they belong together.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Panmure Castle . In: Canmore . Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Retrieved December 7, 2017.
- ↑ a b c Scheduled Monument - entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ^ Harry Maule, John Stuart (editor): Registrum de Panmure. Records of the famlilies of Maule, De Valoniis, Brechin, and Brechin-Barclay, united in the line of the Barons and Earls of Panmure . Fox Maule-Ramsay, Edinburgh 1874.