Description

15th cent. CURTAIN WALLS: Plan resembling <> of a ship.
NORTH BASTION ('the Stem'): Altered 1693. 2 vaulted storeys
and pit-prison. surmounted by gun-platform. MID TOWER ('the
Main Mast'). Square. 4 storeys. Corbelled parapet. Angle
turrets, Barrel-vaulted rooms. Turnpike stair-tower (added
1667). Draw-well outside. GOVERNOR'S HOUSE at S. end: 16th
cent. L-plan. 4 storeys and cape-house (corbie-stopped).
Terrace on court side. Turnpike stair leading to Hall etc.
SPUR to W. of House: Heightened and altered 1693. Angle
turret. Iron yett opening on to pend.

Statement of Interest

Crown property On a rocky promontory (the Black Ness) on

Firth of Forth. Built as a royal fortress. In 17th cent. it

was a State prison for distinguished Covenanters. One of 4

Scottish Castles maintained according to Treaty of Union

1707. Converted into Ordnance depot 1870. Garrisoned until

1919. Guardianship Monument. Area scheduled 23 February 1996.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Blackness Castle at Wikipedia
• Blackness Castle official website
• Wikidata Q1524366

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)