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Burgie Castle, Forres, Moray: two perspectives of the remaining six-storey tower

RIBA Ref No RIBA6644
Artist/PhotographerBillings, Robert William (1813-1874)
CountryUK: Scotland
CityForres
Subject Date1602
Image Date1849
ViewExterior
MediumDrawing
Library ReferenceLarge SR 72.03(41.4)//BIL
OrientationLandscape
Colour InfoColour
CreditRIBA Collections
SubjectCastles ; Country houses ; Ruins
SOURCE: Robert William Billings. The Baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1845-1852), vol. 1, plate section 24 (Burgie Castle), original drawing tipped into RIBA's special author's copy. NOTES: This large-scale Z-plan fortified house was built for Robert Dunbar in c.1602. The majority of the castle, apart from the tower and fragment of the main block, was demolished in 1802 and its building materials re-used elsewhere.
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