Stanely Castle
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 Stanely Castle |
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| Creation time : | Early 15th century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg (Tower House) | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Scottish nobility | |
| Construction: | Freestone - ashlar | |
| Place: | Paisley | |
| Geographical location | 55 ° 49 '24 " N , 4 ° 27' 14.3" W | |
| Height: | 51 m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference | |
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Stanely Castle is the ruin of a lowland castle ( Tower House ) in Stanely Reservoir south of Paisley in the Scottish county of Renfrewshire , at the foot of the Gleniffer Braes . The castle was probably built on an island in the marshland at the beginning of the 15th century. Today the castle is in ruins. Since 1837 it has been partially inundated by the waters of the reservoir and completely inaccessible. When the water is drained from the lake, you can see that the castle ruins stand on a narrow headland that is connected to the bank of the reservoir in the southwest.
history
Stanely was the former seat of the Danzielston family . In the early 15th century the property fell to the Maxwells of Calderwood , who sold it to Lady Ross of Hawhead in 1629 . In the 18th century it fell to the Boyle family's Earls of Glasgow . Then the castle served as a school, but was abandoned at the beginning of the 19th century. George Boyle, 4th Earl of Glasgow , sold it to the Paisley Water Company , which built what is now the reservoir.
construction
The castle is built from local freestone that shows little weathering. It was built from large, roughly square blocks hewn with a hammer, which were built in rough layers. Consoles and window frames are covered. Much of the masonry is cut and clad stone, particularly inside the building. The windows are small and there are keyhole-shaped loopholes .
description
The Inselburg is a tower house with an L-shaped floor plan and four floors. Usually an attic would have been included as well, but it is clear that the castle was built in two phases. The first construction phase was a tower with a rectangular floor plan and an NNE-SSW orientation. In a second phase, an extension with a square floor plan was added to this block. When this wing was added, it was necessary to create new openings for the new rooms. The only entrance door to the castle was on the east side.
The upper floors could be reached via a spiral staircase in the northeast corner. On the first floor there were two rooms that served as a storage cellar. In the southern gable wall there is a private staircase that leads to the knight's hall above. The kitchen was on the first floor of the extension, next to it in the main block the knight's hall and a private room. On the 2nd and 3rd floors there were two bedrooms each in the main block and an additional room in the extension. Each of these rooms was equipped with an open fireplace and a toilet.
Stanely Castle is two stories above the Great Hall, but there is no evidence of rooms in the roof. But it is possible that one or two rooms were created there. The stove tax list of 1691 shows eleven fireplaces. Since the rooms on all floors up to the parapet only contain nine fireplaces, this corroborates the reference to attic rooms in the main block.
Stanely Castle is a Scheduled Monument .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Stanely Castle . In: Canmore . Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
- ^ A b Francis H. Groome (editor): Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland . 1892. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
- ↑ Stanely Castle . In: Mansion Houses of Paisley . Archived from the original on September 7, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 3, 2009.
- ↑ a b c Scheduled Monument - entry . In: Historic Scotland .
swell
- Gordon Mason: The Castles of Glasgow and the Clyde , Goblinshead, Musselburgh 2000.