| 词条 | Amisfield Tower |
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|name=Amisfield Tower |location=Tinwald, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland {{gbmapping|NX992838}} |coordinates = {{coord|55.13826|-3.58278|region:GB_source:enwiki-osgb36(NX992838)|display=inline}} |image= |caption=Amisfield Tower, drawn by Francis Grose around 1789 |map_type = Scotland Dumfries and Galloway |map_relief= 1 |map_caption = Shown within Dumfries and Galloway |map_size=250 |type=Tower house |built=c.1600 |builder=Clan Charteris |controlledby= |materials= |height= |used= |condition= |ownership= |open_to_public= | designations = Category A: {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=LB17233|short=yes}} }}Amisfield Tower is a well-preserved tower house near Tinwald, about {{convert|5|mi}} north of Dumfries, in Dumfries and Galloway, south-west Scotland. The castle has also been known as Hempisfield Tower.[1][2] It is a Category A listed building.[3] HistoryThere has probably been a stronghold on this site since the twelfth century, but the present tower was built by the Charteris family around 1600. That family feuded with the Kilpatricks of Kirkmichael leading to the murder of Roger Kilpatrick in 1526. The property passed to John Dalziel of Newton in 1636. The Dalziels supported the Stuarts in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and captain Alexander Dalziel was executed as a royalist in 1650. DescriptionAlthough the basic plan of Amisfield is a simple square with four stories and an attic, its richness in corbelling and turrets gives it a more romantic guise. Three corners have double-storeyed turrets while the fourth is decked. It has a steeply-pitched roof. These upper features are built in warm, red ashlar in contrast to the rubble walls below. As the tower was not built primarily for defence all of its shotholes are in the upper levels. From first floor to base of the tower there is a projecting stair-tower, round for two stories, corbelling out to the square turret above . The entrance is defended by a machicolation. Within the castle the rooms have fireplaces, and a painted border with lion faces in one room. The first floor hall has a garderobe and three windows. There is a vaulted basement, lit only by three gun-loops. An oak door from the tower, fashioned by a local craftsman, is on display in Edinburgh at the National Museum of Scotland. It depicts Samson tearing open the jaws of a lion, and with a shield bearing the Arms of Charteris and Herries and dated 1600. Hubert Fenwick described Amisfield as “simply marvellous”, saying that it “displays almost every Jacobean baronial conceit”. There is a 17th-century mansion that was doubled in size ca. 1803 immediately adjacent to the tower. The property is owned by the Johnstone family. Archaeological excavations in 2010 and 2011 have discovered the original tower house likely dates earlier than 1600. FeaturesThe corbelling is so-called billet-and-cable design, the stonework imitating logs and rope. The dormer windows adapted the old French form of bretèche. Dog-toothed motifs surround the armorial panels and some of the windows. Bibliography
References1. ^http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/65816/details/amisfield+tower/ 2. ^[https://archive.org/stream/antiquitiesofsco01grosuoft#page/n347/mode/2up "Antiquities of Scotland", vol.1. p.155]. pub. April 15, 1797 by J. Hooper, London. 3. ^{{Historic Environment Scotland|num=LB17233 |desc=AMISFIELD TOWER |cat=A |access-date=25 February 2019}} 3 : Castles in Dumfries and Galloway|Listed castles in Scotland|Category A listed buildings in Dumfries and Galloway |
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