Basic Site Details Name: | Glamis Castle | City or county: | Angus | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | | Status: | A listed | Grid ref: | | Notes: | Gates in walled garden by Alexander Sinclair 1868. Lion finials carved by M W Stephens c.2000. | Building Type ClassificationThe building is classified under the following categories: | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes | | Country House | | |
EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes | | 1681 | | Build/construction | Satyr Gate | | 1701 | | Completion | Completion of new work as harling being carried out. | | c. 1747 | | Plans drawn up | Designs for monumental stables and offices- perhaps by Roger Morris | | 1763 | | Plans drawn up | For remodelling Great tower and wings | | c. 1775 | | Build/construction | West wing - construction begun | | 1850 | 1853 | | Formation of new dining room and kitchen, together with furnishing: James Anderson, clerk of works; Ralph, plasterer; Richardson, woodwork; John Brown, glass stainer; William and Cuthbert Burnup, furnishing, all of Newcastle | | c. 1850 | | | Garden house | | 1856 | | Addition | Chimneypiece from Gibbside in billiard room which may date from John Dobson's alterations there. | | 1866 | 1869 | Build/construction | Proposals for large new wing - not built - but 3 bays in range to E of kitchen block built. Gateways tp walled garden 1866 | | 1866 | 1868 | Build/construction | Brick-walled garden | | 1889 | 1901 | | South range alterations and additions | | 1892 | 1893 | | Dutch garden designed | | 1895 | 1896 | | Internal alterations to the Great Tower | | 1903 | | Alterations and additions | Library dating from the 1770s was lavishly remodelled. |
PeopleDesign and ConstructionThe following individuals or organisations have carried out design/construction work. Where architects or practices worked together, matching letters appear beside their names in the Partnership Group column. | | Name | Role | Partnership Group | From | To | Notes | | Alexander Craw | | K | 1681 | | Satyr gate | | John Sharres | | B | 1701 | | Employed harling castle - indicating new work complete by this date | | Roger Morris | | D | c. 1747 | | Monumental stables and offices - possibly by Morris | | John Carr | | G | 1763 | | Prepared designs for remodelling Great tower and wings | | George Paterson | | C | c. 1775 | | West wing | | Thomas Liddell | | | 1850 | 1853 | Formation of new dining room and kitchen, together with furnishing: James Anderson, clerk of works; Ralph, plasterer; Richardson, woodwork; John Brown, glass stainer; William and Cuthbert Burnup, furnishing, all of Newcastle | | James Anderson | | B | 1850 | | Formation of new dining room and kitchen, together with furnishing: James Anderson, clerk of works; Ralph, plasterer; Richardson, woodwork; John Brown, glass stainer; William and Cuthbert Burnup, furnishing, all of Newcastle | | John Dobson | | A | 1856 | | Chimneypiece from Gibbside in billiard room which may date from John Dobson's alterations there. | | Archibald Fowler | | A | 1866 | 1868 | Large brick-walled garden | | Brown & Wardrop | | A | 1866 | 1869 | Proposals for large new wing - not built - but 3 bays in range to E of kitchen block built. Gateways to walled garden (1866) | | James Maitland Wardrop | | A | 1866 | 1869 | Proposals for large new wing - not built - but 3 bays in range to E of kitchen block built. Gateways to walled garden (1866) | | Thomas Brown II | | A | 1866 | 1869 | Proposals for large new wing - not built - but 3 bays in range to E of kitchen block built. Gateways to walled garden (1866) | | James A Ferguson | | | 1889 | 1901 | South east range alterations and additions. Also internal alterations to the great tower | | Arthur Castings | | | 1892 | 1893 | Dutch garden designed |
ClientsThe following individuals or organisations have commissioned work on this building/design: | | Name | Notes | | Strathmore, 9th Earl of (d.1776) | Client for 1775 addition of west wing |
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | Gifford, John | 2012 | The Buildings of Scotland: Angus and Dundee | | Yale | pp502, 507, 509, 510, 511, 513 | | Slade, Harry Gordon | 2000 | Glamis Castle | | | p63-64 (Paterson work), p75-8 and 73 (also p 73 for Dutch garden), pp67-71 (new dining room and kitchen), pp56-7 (Roger Morris designs) |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this building: | | Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes | | Glamis Castle | Glamis Castle Archive - plans | | | | Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 11701 | | | National Monuments Record of Scotland/NMRS, RCAHMS | NMRS Library | | NMRS library copy of letter from Harry Gordon Slade to Helen Smailes about Liddell work |
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