Monday, April 18, 2016

Art - Kellie Castle & Garden, Pittenweem, Scotland



 Having escaped alterations made to the great houses in the nineteenth century, Kellie Castle - which dates from 1150 - flourishes intact as part of The National Trust of Scotland.

The arts and crafts garden is well cared for and remains a great house to tour, a place for artists to create and musicians to play.





 The garden cottage where fruit & veg is harvested each Tuesday.


 It's magnificent plaster ceilings were designed by Scottish architect Sir Robert Lorimer, son of Professor James Allan Lorimer, a prominent Edinburgh University Professor of Public and International Law as a holiday home for his wife Hannah,  and their six children - James, John Henry, Hannah, Alice, Louise and Robert.
 The brilliant drawing room kept much the way it was when the Lorimer family lived there.

Hew Lorimer's studio.
















 http://www.nts.org.uk/Property/Kellie-Castle-and-Garden/

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