5750 x 3650 px | 48,7 x 30,9 cm | 19,2 x 12,2 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
10 febbraio 2010
Ubicazione:
The Scottish National Museum of Scotland Chambers St Edinburgh Scotland.
Altre informazioni:
Innerpeffray is a strange place to find down at the end of a mile-long and unmetalled side-road, near the steep banks of the river, a place packed with history and interest, yet not even a hamlet. Here, there is a nationally-renowned ancient library, a pre-Reformation chapel of some distinction, an early endowed school and a ruined castle. The chapel was old in 1508, when it rebuilt by the first Lord Drummond, father of James IV's love, Margaret Drummond, as a Collegiate foundation, and long used as the burial-place of that great family, later Earls of Perth. It is a typically long and low, two apartment building, with stone-slated roof, warm sandstone dressings and moulded doorways. There is a niche high on the east gable, and a leper's squint in the north wall, where the unfortunates could watch the celebration of Mass without entering the church. Also a stone altar, part of a painted ceiling and a priest's loft. The castle is not often visited, being not visible from the rest, on lower ground at a bend of the river to the east. It is ruinous, but the main features survive, a commodious L-planned house of the early '7th century, built by James Drummond, first Lord Madderty, younger brother of the 3rd Lord Drummond, and whose nephews became Earls of Perth and of Melfort, and ruled Scotland between them, for James VII in London. Grazing cattle alone now inherit all this circumstance.
