Falkland Palace

Building details
Name	Falkland Palace
Address	High Street, Falkland
Postcode	KY15 7BY
Other names
Date	15th century
Architect
OS grid ref	NO253074
Latitude & longitude	56°15'13"N 3°12'23"W
Listing	Category A
Listing reference	LB8798
Listing name	South Range of Falkland Palace including adjoining gatehouse to west and Cross House within east range, and excluding scheduled monument SM854, Falkland Palace, Falkland

Falkland Palace is a former palace of the Kings and Queens of Scotland. It is a Category A listed building and a Scheduled Monument.

Listing description

The present palace was begun by James II. In the 16th century the Bethunes of Creich became hereditary keepers, the keepership passing by marriage to David Viscount Murray of Stormont who built a house on the site of the original castle early in the 17th century, long ago demolished; the keepership passed from the Murrays to the Earl of Atholl during the Commonwealth; and thence to the Dukes of Atholl; acquired 1787 by Skene of Pitlour, and thence by marriage to the Moncrieffs of the Myres; in 1820 General George Moncrieff disposed of it to Professor John Bruce whose niece brought it to O Tyndall Bruce who repaired the much neglected south quarter and gatehouse in 1840; acquired from the Bruces 1887 by the 3rd Marquess of Bute: to Lord Ninian Crichton Stuart 1900, to Major Michael Crichton Stuart 1915; National Trust Deputy Keeper 1952.

Gallery

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  view from the High Street
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  View from the orchard
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  View from the gardens