D&G talk: the Galloway Castles of MacGibbon & Ross
D&G talk: the Galloway Castles of MacGibbon & Ross
Join us for a talk by Dr Janet Brennan-Inglis about the Galloway castles
surveyed by MacGibbon and Ross.
Time: 2.15pm
Venue: In-person at the Gordon Memorial Hall, Castle Douglas DG7 1EN
Booking: Please get in touch with Sue Douglas or Sheila Innes, or pay at the door
Dr Janet Brennan-Inglis recently retired from the board of HES and is a current board member of the National Trust for Scotland. Her book, “A Passion for Castles: The Story of MacGibbon and Ross and the Castles they Surveyed”, was published by Birlinn in 2022.
In the 1880s two Edinburgh architects began to survey, measure and sketch the castles of Scotland, travelling the length and breadth of the country on trains, bicycles and on foot. Together they produced the five magnificent volumes of The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland, an unrivalled work of research that surveys more than 700 of Scotland’s castellated buildings, ranging from great medieval fortresses to small lairds’ houses with pepper-pot turrets, and is illustrated with thousands of sketches and plans.
This lecture, drawing on content included in the author’s recent book “A Passion for Castles: The Story of MacGibbon and Ross and the Castles they Surveyed”, looks at the current status of some of the Galloway castles surveyed by MacGibbon and Ross, explores those that have been lost, those that have been transformed and those at risk of collapse, and poses questions about what the future holds for the castles of Scotland.
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