Penshiel Tower
| Penshiel Tower | ||
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 The Chapel Stone with the ruins of the Penshiel Grange behind it |
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| Creation time : | 15th century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Scottish monks | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone | |
| Place: | Garvald | |
| Geographical location | 55 ° 51 '21.6 " N , 2 ° 32' 52.8" W | |
| Height: | 300 m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference | |
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Penshiel Tower is a tower in the area of Penshiel Grange about 9 km southeast of Garvald in the Scottish administrative division of East Lothian .
Penshiel Grange is the ruin of a grangie that belonged to Melrose Abbey . It was probably built in the first half of the 15th century; a previous building is already mentioned in a charter around 1200. Penshiel Grange is a Scheduled Monument .
The main building of the Grangie covers an area of about 25 meters × 7.6 meters and the walls are still about 3 meters high. There are traces of a tower (the Penshiel Tower) on the southeast corner and evidence of a courtyard north and south of the ruin. The wall in the south of the ruin is now just a grass-covered, stony wall. At least two buildings still stood north of the grangie; one of them could have been a chapel .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Entry on Penshiel Tower in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
- ↑ Scheduled Monument - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .