Tour Haunted Kellie Castle Scotland

Tour Haunted Kellie Castle, Fife, Scotland. Mentioned in charter of David I around 1150, Kellie was owned by the Oliphant family from 1360 to 1613 when it was purchased by Sir Thomas Erskine a childhood friend of James VI who created him Earl of Kellie. Restored by the Lorimer family who bought the castle in the 19th century, the building contains magnificent plaster ceilings, painted panelling and furniture designed by Sir Robert Lorimer. This Scottish castle is haunted by the ghost of a woman called Ann Erskine, who fell to her death from one of the castle windows. She is said to haunt a spiral staircase in the castle where you can often hear her footsteps.

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Tour Scotland Autumn Photograph Video Fingask Castle Perthshire

Tour Scotland Autumn video 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. 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. 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.

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Tour Scotland Video William Wallace Doorway Kilspindie Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the William Wallace doorway in the Parish Churchyard on ancestry, history visit and trip to Kilspindie, Perthshire. This recently discovered door connected Kilspindie Church to the path to Kilspindie Castle of which there are no remains, though some of the stones are built into Kilspindie Church. The original castle was the home of the uncle of William Wallace and it is known that he spent much of his childhood here and would have often walked through this door to attend church services.

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Tour Scotland Autumn Photograph Video King Robert The Bruce Chapel St Conan's Kirk

Tour Scotland Autumn photograph of the King Robert The Bruce Chapel St Conan's Kirk by Loch Awe, Argyll, Scotland.



Tour Scotland Autumn video of the King Robert The Bruce Chapel in St Conan's Kirk by Loch Awe, Argyll, Scotland. This Scottish chapel owes its origins to the fact that it was on a hillside above the church that he dispatched the famous outflanking column under the Earl of Douglas, which inflicted a decisive defeat on John Lorne and his clansmen in the Pass of Brander. The effigy is made of wood, with the hands and face being of alabaster. Beneath the effigy is a small ossuary which contains a bone of Bruce, from Dunfermline Abbey in Fife. The window in the chapel was the original west window from St Mary's Church in Leith, Edinburgh.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Video The Apse St Conan's Kirk

Tour Scotland photograph of the Apse in St Conan's Kirk by Loch Awe, Argyll, Scotland.



Tour Scotland video of the Apse in St Conan's Kirk by Loch Awe, Argyll, Scotland. The semicircular apse and ambulatory with their solid pillars, narrow arches and clear glass windows are perhaps the most distinctive features of St. Conan's. It seems probable that the shape was inspired by those of St. John's Chapel in the Tower of London, but whereas that chapel is dark, this receives the full blaze of daylight and has as its background the mountains of Glenorchy and Glenstrae. The result is most pleasing and almost unique. There is an interesting story current locally that when Mr. Campbell was designing this part of the kirk an engineer friend objected that, although the effect might be beautiful, the design was mechanically unsound. Mr. Campbell disagreed, but, to make quite sure, built a scale model of the apse and passed a steamroller over it. The model stood up to the pressure, and so has the structure itself. Within the curve of the apse is the communion table, made of solid oak. Once again the craftsmen were found locally and are still represented in the village. The wood from which this table was carved weighed over seven hundredweight

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