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Latitude: 55.9781 / 55°58'41"N
Longitude: -3.6009 / 3°36'3"W
OS Eastings: 300196
OS Northings: 677279
OS Grid: NT001772
Mapcode National: GBR 1S.W6ZM
Mapcode Global: WH5R8.N0GG
Plus Code: 9C7RX9HX+6J
Entry Name: Linlithgow Palace, Gate-House
Listing Date: 22 February 1971
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 382566
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB37470
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Linlithgow, Linlithgow Palace
ID on this website: 200382566
Location: Linlithgow
County: West Lothian
Town: Linlithgow
Electoral Ward: Linlithgow
Traditional County: West Lothian
Tagged with: Castle
Circa 1535. Single storey gateway, pointed arch pend at centre flanked by polygonal corner towers to S elevation. Cream squared and coursed snadstone rubble. Corbelled and coped with cable moulded course, crenellated at centre of S elevation.
S ELEVATION: base course with gun loops to towers, 4 carved wreathed panels over archway representing the orders of the Knighthood borne by James V: The Golden Fleece; St Michael; the Garter and the Thistle.
PEND: ribbed barrel vault, 3 carved bosses, 2 of unicorns and 1 lion. Stone benches to side walls.
MONUMENT IN CARE; (CROWN PROPERTY). See also Linlithgow Palance and Linlithgow Palace, Lodge listed separately. The gateway was built by James V to serve his new S entrance to the palace. The carved panels above the archway were recarved in Edinburgh in 1845. Recently more work has been done inside the gateway with the replacement of some of the stone benching, and the painting of the panels. It bears similarities to the West Port, St Andrews.
Scheduled Monument.
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