Tour Scotland Photographs Fingask Castle Perthshire

Tour Scotland photograph of Fingask Castle, Carse Of Gowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. Fingask is perched 200 feet above Rait, three miles north-east of Errol, in the Braes of the Carse, on the fringes of the Sidlaw Hills. Thus it overlooks both the Carse of Gowrie and the Firth of Tay and beyond into the Kingdom of Fife. Fingask was once an explicitly holy place, a convenient and numinous stop-off between the abbeys at Falkirk and Scone. In the eighteenth century it was a nest of Jacobites.

Tour Scotland photograph of Fingask Castle, Carse Of Gowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. The Bruce family owned the lands of Rait, including Fingask, from the 15th century. The castle itself is dated 1592, and was built around a 12th century structure. In 1672, Sir Patrick Threipland, 1st Baronet, purchased the estate, which was erected into a barony the same year. Sir Patrick renovated the building and laid out the gardens. He died a prisoner at Stirling Castle for adherence to the ousted King James VII, in 1689. His son David, 2nd Baronet, joined the Jacobite rising of 1715, and fought against the government at the Battle of Sheriffmuir. He was attainted when the rising failed, and his forfeited estates were purchased by the York Buildings Company, an English waterworks company which had begun to specialise in forfeited land.

Tour Scotland photograph of Fingask Castle, Carse Of Gowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. Fingask Castle was badly damaged in 1745 by government troops, as the Threiplands once more supported the Jacobites in the second Jacobite rising. and in 1783, it was bought back by the Threiplands, in the person of Dr. Stuart Threipland, physician. Between 1828 and 1840 additions were made to the south and west of the castle. Sir Patrick Threipland, 4th Baronet (1762-1837) laid out the park, and his son planted the topiary gardens and installed statuary. The castle passed out of the Threipland family again in 1917, when it was bought by whisky merchant Sir John Henderson Stewart, 1st Baronet. The estate was bought by H. B. Gilroy of Ballumbie in 1925, who removed many of the 19th century additions, and since 1969 has once more been the home of the Threipland family. The castle is a listed building, and the estate is included on the Inventory of Historic Gardens and Designed Landscapes, the national register of significant gardens. Tour Scottish Castles, Abbeys, Houses, Towers.

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Tour Scotland Photographs Fingask Castle

Tour Scotland photograph of Fingask Castle, Perthshire, Scotland. Fingask Castle is located three miles north east of Errol, in the Braes of the Carse, on the fringes of the Sidlaw Hills. It overlooks both the Carse of Gowrie and the Firth of Tay and beyond into the Kingdom of Fife.


Tour Scotland photograph of Fingask Castle, Perthshire, Scotland. Fingask was once an explicitly holy place, a convenient and numinous stop off between the abbeys at Falkirk and Scone. It was later held by the Bruce family, and then by the Threiplands. In the eighteenth century it was a nest of Jacobites and was forfeited. Since 1969 the castle has been a Threipland property again.


Tour Scotland photograph of Fingask Castle, Perthshire, Scotland. The garden is renowned for its topiary.


Tour Scotland photograph of Fingask Castle, Perthshire, Scotland.

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August 31st Photograph Topiary Scotland

August 31st photograph of topiary at Fingask Castle gardens, Carse Of Gowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. Tour Scottish Castles, Abbeys, Houses, Towers.


August 31st photograph of topiary at Fingask Castle gardens, Carse Of Gowrie, Perthshire, Scotland.


August 31st photograph of topiary at Fingask Castle gardens, Carse Of Gowrie, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Photograph Statues Fingask Scotland

December 9th photograph of statues at Fingask, Perthshire, Scotland. Statues by David Anderson, sculptor, of Perth, of characters from Scots literature. Works depicted include Robert Burns' or Alexander Thomson's (1763 to 1803) Meg and Watty, Burns' Willie Brew’d a Peck o’ Maut, And Rab and Allan cam’ tae Pree, Sir Walter Scott's Last Minstrel, Ossian, and Burns' Tam O' Shanter and Kate.


December 9th photograph of statues at Fingask, Perthshire, Scotland.


December 9th photograph of statues at Fingask, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Photograph Fingask Castle Scotland

December 9th photograph of Fingask Castle, Perthshire, Scotland. Fingask was once a holy place, a convenient and stop off between the abbeys at Falkirk and Scone. In the eighteenth century it was a nest of Jacobites. The Bruce family owned the lands of Rait, including Fingask, from the 15th century. The garden is renowned for its topiary.


December 9th photograph of Fingask Castle, Perthshire, Scotland.


December 9th photograph of Fingask Castle, Perthshire, Scotland.


December 9th photograph of Fingask Castle, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Border Collie Dog Fingask Castle Perthshire

Tour Scotland photograph an old Scottish Border Collie sheepdog outside Fingask Castle, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Topiary Fingask Castle

Tour Scotland photograph of Topiary at Fingask Castle, Braes of the Carse, Perthshire, Scotland. In 1642, during the Civil War, the castle was ransacked; in 1672 it was bought by Patrick Threipland in a dilapidated state. Patrick became Provost of Perth and was created a Nova Scotia baronet in Canada in 1678. In about 1674, he renovated the Castle, added a wing, laid out the terraces and planted the woodland. The family followed the Jacobite Cause and the estate was forfeited in 1717. The wife of Sir David Threipland, 2nd Baronet, born 1666, died 1746, leased the estates from the York Building Company in England and looked after them for her family. In 1745, the Castle was partially destroyed by Government troops as a penalty for supporting the Jacobite Uprising. Following Sir David's death in 1746, his daughter managed the estate until her brother Stuart eventually bought it back in 1783. Stuart was an eminent physician, who looked after Prince Charles Edward and subsequently practiced in Edinburgh. Improvements to the estate began under his factor, James Stobie. They were continued by Stuart's son Sir Patrick, born 1762, died 1837, a noted scholar who had been educated in France. Patrick was recognised as a significant improver; he laid out the park. His son, Patrick, 5th Baronet, created the topiary gardens. The estate was sold in 1917 to the Gilroys and in 1925 Mills & Shepherd modernised the Castle. The Murray Threiplands bought back the Castle and part of the policies in 1967.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Photograph Fingask Castle Topiary

Tour Scotland photograph of topiary at Fingask Castle, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish garden is renowned for its topiary.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Fingask Castle Sundial

Tour Scotland photograph of a sundial at Fingask Castle, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Fingask Castle Lions

Tour Scotland photograph of two statues of lions at Fingask Castle , Perthshire, Scotland. Fingask grounds contain many statues by David Anderson, sculptor, of Perth, of characters from Scots literature.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Fingask Castle Statues

Tour Scotland photograph of statues at Fingask Castle , Perthshire, Scotland. Fingask grounds contain many statues by David Anderson, sculptor, of Perth, of characters from Scots literature. Fingask was once an explicitly holy place, a convenient and numinous stop-off between the abbeys at Falkirk and Scone. In the eighteenth century it was a nest of Jacobites.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Fingask Castle Perthshire

Tour Scotland photograph of Fingask Castle, Perthshire, Scotland. A country house in Perthshire, Scotland. It is perched 200 feet above the village of Rait, three miles north east of Errol, in the Braes of the Carse, on the fringes of the Sidlaw Hills. Thus it overlooks both the Carse of Gowrie and the Firth of Tay and beyond into the Kingdom of Fife. There are mentions of the lands of Fingask in the Foundation Charter of the Abbey of Scone by King Alexander I. The date of the charter is said to be 1114 or 1115. The Bruce family owned the lands of Rait, including Fingask, from the 15th century. The Bruces were descended from the senior line of the Bruces of Clackmannan, which included Sir David Bruce who married Janet, daughter of Sir William Stirling of Keir. Their son, Robert Bruce held the charter of Rait in 1484, confirmed 1488, and his son David resigned his right to Clackmannan to his uncle in February 1506.



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