Burgie Castle, Forres, Moray: two perspectives of the remaining six-storey tower
Artist/Photographer | Billings, Robert William (1813-1874) |
Country | UK: Scotland |
City | Forres |
Subject Date | 1602 |
Image Date | 1849 |
View | Exterior |
Medium | Drawing |
Library Reference | Large SR 72.03(41.4)//BIL |
Orientation | Landscape |
Colour Info | Colour |
Credit | RIBA Collections |
Subject | Castles ; 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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