Taymouth Castle, The Tower. View from SW Digital image of PT/594

Description Taymouth Castle, The Tower. View from SW Digital image of PT/594

Date 6/1965

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 766023

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of PT 594

Scope and Content The Tower, Taymouth Castle, Perth & Kinross, from south west This shows the harled and painted white tower which was built on the estate in the mid- to late 18th century. The building has a three-storeyed tower with six arched windows looking across the glen to Taymouth Castle. The battlement of the two-storeyed block is an architectural feature found on the castle and many of the estate buildings. Taymouth Castle grounds were redesigned into a landscape park between 1740 and 1810. This included the careful planting of trees, the enlarging of parks and walks, and the construction of buildings. This created a less formal landscape than before and the tower was probably built as a lookout point for the family. Tourists may also have used this building, as the grounds were open to the public during this period. Taymouth Castle was built for the Campbells of Breadalbane and stands on the site of Balloch Castle, which was built c.1550. Taymouth's main block, built between 1802 and 1810, was designed by James Elliot (1770-1810) and the east wing, built between 1818 and 1821, was designed by William Atkinson (c.1773-1839). The west pavilion, built in the early 18th century, was designed by William Adam (1689-1748) and was altered by James Gillespie Graham (1777-1855). The castle has important interior decoration by the Italian plasterer Francis Bernasconi and was visited by Queen Victoria in 1842. The Mactaggart family bought the estate in 1922 and converted the castle into a hotel and the deer park into a golf course. The castle was a convalescent home during World War II and has had several uses until c.1983 when it became unoccupied. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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