Corstorphine Manse

Category

Library Item

Item no

9790

Title

Corstorphine Manse

Description

A springtime view of Corstorphine Manse, Edinburgh. The double fronted house has bay windows and a central front door. It is surrounded by a mature garden with trees and the foreground is littered with daffodils.

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1956

Size

11.9 x 16.3 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Artist is given as D. W. G.

Corstorphine Manse was built c.1650 and extended in 1835. Bay windows and new front put on in 1880. The manse was demolished in 1959.

Corstorphine was originally a separate village west of Edinburgh. It has been incorporated into the city and is now one of its most significant suburbs. The Forrester Family, who built Corstorphine Castle, controlled the area's lands from the 14th to the 18th century. The Castle was dismantled in the 18th century, but its doocot, or dovecot remains. The lands were subsequently owned by the Dicks, a family of Edinburgh lawyers and merchants, and later the Dicksons. Corsorphine is now home to Edinburgh Zoo.

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Places > Edinburgh areas > Corstorphine

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

Plants > Flowers > Daffodils

Plants > Trees > Trees

Religion > Religious facilities > Manses

(55°56′32″N, 3°17′2″W)