Castles · Scottish Highlands
Stirling Heads
Stirling Heads in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1.5 h–3 h
About
Stirling Heads 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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From the Wikipedia article
The Stirling Heads are a group of large oak portrait medallions made around the year 1540 to decorate the ceiling of a room at Stirling Castle. The style, in origin, was based on Italian architectural decoration and at Stirling was probably derived from a French source. Similar medallions carved in stone adorn Falkland Palace.
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Background
History
James V of Scotland rebuilt the royal lodgings at Stirling Castle to form a new Palace, which included suites for the king and his consort Mary of Guise. The building works were supervised by James Hamilton of Finnart. There is very little documentation for the works. James V may have been inspired by a current belief that the Roman general Gnaeus Julius Agricola had rebuilt Stirling Castle "with diligence and sumptuous expense", and some of the medallion head carvings may have been intended to depict ancient heroes as supposed forebears of the Stewart dynasty. The Stirling Heads represent James's ambitions for the interiors of his palaces, and seem based on French models which derive in…
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- Coordinates
- 56.1239, -3.9478
- Address
- Castle Esplanade, FK8 1EJ
- Phone
- +44 1786 450000
- Opening
- Mo-Su 09:30-17:00
- Official site
- www.stirlingcastle.scot
Sources
- wikidata: Q130243596 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Stirling Heads (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Stirling Heads?
- Stirling Heads is in Scottish Highlands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 56.1239°, -3.9478°.
- What are the opening hours for Stirling Heads?
- OpenStreetMap records opening hours as: Mo-Su 09:30-17:00. Check the official site to confirm seasonal changes.