Where is Monzie Castle?

Monzie Castle is in Scottish Highlands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 56.3993°, -3.8262°.

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Monzie Castle

Monzie Castle in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom.

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Typical visit: 1.5 h–3 h

Monzie Castle is a place of interest in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Monzie Castle is a castellated mansion, near Monzie in Perth and Kinross, Scotland that incorporates an L-plan, early 17th-century building that was enlarged in 1797–1800. It is a category A listed building. The current house interior dates from 1908 following the destruction of the later portion of the mansion by fire. The exterior splits into two clear sections: the original L-plan house of 1634 and the 1790 section by John Paterson, a pupil of Robert Adam.

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Margaret Scott, heiress of Monzie, deeded three-quarters of the lands in 1613 to her son, James Graeme, who later built a house on the property. The house has a marriage lintel (in fact in this instance a pediment) dating from around 1635 bearing the figure of a man with a moustache holding corn in one hand and a bible in the other flanked by the letters M, I and G. M was Marjory the wife of James Graeme (IG). At the base is a Greek inscription translating as "I am led by scripture". Two further pediments are one in Latin and one in Hebrew: ""Seek the One I worship" and "I have found his Prosperity". James Graeme died at the Battle of Philiphaugh in 1645. The building may have incorporated…

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