Seton Palace

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Seton Palace was a mansion near the town of Prestonpans in Scotland administrative unit East Lothian .

history

The palace was George Seton, 4th Lord Seton , built in the 15th century. In style it was similar to Winton House and was considered one of the most desirable Scottish residences in the 16th and 17th centuries.

After the Jacobite Rising in 1715, the palace's owners, the Earls of Winton , forfeited their possessions to the crown. Seton Palace was in ruins as early as the 1780s, and in 1789 the then owner of the property, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Mackenzie of the 21st Dragoons, commissioned the architect Robert Adam to build Seton Castle .

The remains of the old palace were demolished and removed in 1790.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The architecture of Robert Adam (1728-1792) . SCRAN. Retrieved January 26, 2018.

Coordinates: 55 ° 57 ′ 55 ″  N , 2 ° 56 ′ 0.6 ″  W.