Old Castle of Powrie, Forfarshire

Category

Library Item

Item no

13068

Title

Old Castle of Powrie, Forfarshire

Artist / maker

Webster, Mary

Date

1839

Size

27.2 x 32.9 cm

Type

Watercolour

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Annotation below painting reads 'Sketched from nature September 1839'.

Powrie Castle is a 16th-century castle located in the north of Dundee, Scotland.

The castle was built in the early 16th century and later razed in 1548 by the English, then based in Balgillo, as part of the Rough Wooing. It was after this incident that the castle was rebuilt as two separate buildings forming a courtyard. The south wing was built as a Z-plan tower house with a vaulted ceiling. This building is now a ruin. The north wing was built in 1604 in a more renaissance style with a vaulted ground floor and a residential wing. A National Trust for Scotland competition was later held to design a plan to restore this building. This was won by Gillian Strickland who was awarded ownership of the castle as a result. The north wing is now in use as private residences.

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