Scotstarvit Tower
| Scotstarvit Tower | |
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Fife | |
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 Scotstarvit Tower | |
| Type: | Tower house |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NO37041127 |
| Location: | 56°17’23"N, 3°1’7"W |
| History | |
| Information | |
| Owned by: | Historic Scotland |
| Website: | Scotstarvit Tower |
Scotstarvit Tower is a six-storey L-plan tower house in Fife, standing two miles south of Cupar, between the Hill of Tarvit and Walton Hill, south of the River Eden, near the A916 road.
The tower, still largely intact, was built in the third quarter of the 16th century by the Inglis family.[1] It was bought, in 1611, by Sir John Scot, author of the satirical The Staggering State of the Scots' Statesmen. Scot rebuilt the tower in the 1620s. Major General John Scott inherited the tower from his father David Scott in 1766 and died here in 1775.[2]
Scotstarvit later passed to the Wemyss family, and in 1948 it was given to the National Trust for Scotland, and it is now in the care of Historic Environment Scotland.
The castle is a Scheduled Ancient Monument[3] and a Category A listed building.[1]
See also
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Scotstarvit Tower) |
- Scotstarvit Tower: Historic Scotland
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Scotstarvit Tower (Category A) - Listing detail (Historic Environment Scotland)
- ↑ "Family tree of John Scott Major-General, of Balcomie". https://gw.geneanet.org/sduggan?lang=en&pz=shayla+nicole&nz=duggan&p=john&n=scott.
- ↑ Scotstarvit Tower - scheduled monument detail (Historic Environment Scotland)