Spring Road Trip Drive To Evelick Castle Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland Spring travel video of a road trip drive with Scottish musicc, on a single track road to Evelick Castle on visit to Perthshire. Evelick Castle, a seat of the Clan Lindsay, appears to date from the early 16th century. Evelick was the residence of a branch of the Lindsay family. The designation 'of Evelick'; was evidently first used in 1497 by the David Lindsay who then held the estates; before then the family is said to have been designated as 'of Leroquhy'. The existing tower house probably dates from the later decades of the sixteenth century. The family was granted a baronetcy in 1666. The castle has been associated with a number of significant events. Thomas, the second son of the first baronet, was murdered by his stepbrother, William Douglas, in 1682, and the latter was subsequently executed. In 1752 Margaret, the daughter of Sir Alexander and Lady Amelia Lindsay, eloped with the painter Allan Ramsay to become his second wife. The last of the line died through drowning in 1799. It is built on a variation of the L-plan, with two wings joining at their corners, and a semicircular stair tower. The walls rise three storeys to the wallhead, but the attic storey above has disappeared, save for the gunloops for its dormer windows. A feature of this castle is the great number of gunloops, there being one for almost every window. There appear to have been two doorways. The main entrance is in the foot of the stair tower. The basement has been vaulted, but this, with the floors above, has fallen in. Some of the windows have been enlarged. The fabric is not in a good condition, and is much broken down to West and South.

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