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Monzie Castle
Monzie Castle is a castellated mansion near Monzie in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It incorporates an early 17th‑century L‑plan house (c.1634) and a larger late‑18th‑century castellated addition by John Paterson; the later interior was rebuilt after a 1908 fire.
Its prime
1800
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1800
What Monzie Castle looked like in its prime.
A two-part, castellated country house of warm brown rubble stone set in wooded parkland: an original three-storey L‑plan wing with pedimented dormerheads and a pedimented west entrance, joined to a larger late‑18th‑century castellated block with a continuous crenellated parapet and rectangular sash windows. The roofline is dominated by a low parapet with raised merlon-like blocks; façades show regularly spaced tall windows and plain stone masonry. The house sits amid mature trees on gentle slopes and appears complete and roofed.
Its story
The story of Monzie Castle.
Margaret Scott's Deed and the House James Graeme Built, 1613–1635
Margaret Scott, heiress of Monzie, deeded three-quarters of the lands in 1613 to her son James Graeme, who later built a house on the property. That house was a rubble-walled, three-storey building on an L-plan, its second-storey windows rising through the eaves to pedimented dormerheads. A similar pediment surrounds the entrance on the west side, and its lintel carries three weathered heraldic shields, the initials of Graeme and his wife Marjory, and the date 1634, presumably the date of construction; a large fireplace on the ground floor bears a swagged lintel carved with a heraldic panel and the same date.
The marriage lintel, in this instance a pediment, dates from around 1635 and shows a moustached man holding corn in one hand and a bible in the other, flanked by the letters M, I and G: M for Marjory, IG for James Graeme. At its base runs a Greek inscription translating as "I am led by scripture", and two further pediments carry a Latin and a Hebrew inscription, "Seek the One I worship" and "I have found his Prosperity". The building may have incorporated an earlier fortalice, since there are garderobes in the walls of the west wing.
Philiphaugh, the Campbells and Lord Monzie, 1645–1800
James Graeme died at the Battle of Philiphaugh in 1645. The estate was sold to Colin Campbell of Lagvinshoch in 1666 and passed from him to his son Patrick Campbell, Lord Monzie. A descendant, General Alexander Campbell, MP, enlarged the house by adding a much larger castellated building on its east side in 1797–1800, to designs by John Paterson, a pupil of Robert Adam.
Fire, Lorimer's Rebuilding and the Rover Moot at Monzie
The house was inherited by Charles Maitland-Makgill-Crichton in 1900. The interior of the addition was gutted by a fire in 1908 and rebuilt by Sir Robert Lorimer over the next four years in his own style, and the present house interior dates from that rebuilding. In 1939 Monzie Castle was the site of the 3rd World Rover Moot, attended by 3,500 Scouts from 42 nations. The castellated mansion near Monzie, in Perth and Kinross, has been protected as a category A listed building since October 1971.
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8 places to explore in 1800.
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Clans who held Monzie Castle.
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Bought by Colin Campbell of Lagvinshoch in 1666; passed to his son Patrick Campbell, Lord Monzie.
