Floors Castle On Visit To The Borders Of Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video clip, with Scottish music, of Floors Castle near Kelso on a visit to the Scottish Borders. This is the seat of the Duke of Roxburghe. It was built in the 1720s by the architect William Adam for the 1st Duke. In the 19th century it was embellished with turrets and battlements by William Playfair for the 6th Duke. Floors Castle lies on the River Tweed and overlooks the Cheviot Hills. John, Earl of Roxburghe, born 1680, died 1741, played a role in securing the Union of England and Scotland in 1707, and was rewarded by being created Duke of Roxburghe. Around 1837, the 6th Duke, born 1816, died 1879, commissioned the fashionable architect William Playfair to remodel and rebuild the plain Georgian mansion house he had inherited. The present form of the building is the result of Playfair's work, and is in a similar style to his buildings at Donaldson's College, Edinburgh. In 1903, Duke Henry married the American heiress Mary Goelet. She brought with her from her Long Island home a set of Gobelins Manufactory tapestries, that were incorporated into the ballroom in the 1930s, and added to the collection several modern pictures by Walter Sickert and Henri Matisse, among others. The castle featured in the 1984 movie Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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