Scottish Baronial architecture
Scottish Baronial (also Scots Baronial or Scotch Baronial; German Scottish Baroniestil ) is a historicist architectural style that evolved in Scotland in the 19th century. It was based on the fortified architecture of the Tower houses from the late 16th and early 17th century and was the Scottish variant of the then widespread throughout Europe Gothic Revival.
Characteristics of the style are great mansions and castles in the country, which corresponded to the technical standard and comfort requirements of the 19th century inside while her appearance the impression of a stately home dating from the 16th/17th. Century mediated. To this end, the architects made use especially of such elements such as roofs of varying heights, crenellations, towers with flock guard turrets, stepped gables and lancet windows, the military elements had no more military tasks, but served only the decoration of the building.
The development of the style was favored by a social flow, which - inspired by the works of the Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott - had re-awakened interest in a specific Scottish identity. Scotland should no longer only be the "North Britain", and as founders considered originally Scottish, as the castle architecture in Scotland. Scott was also for the Abbotsford House with a manor house was built, whose style was a precursor of the Scottish Baronial.
At the beginning of the 19th century designed James Gillespie Graham numerous buildings in the style of Scottish Baronials, where he, in contrast to its later representatives more inspiration from medieval religious buildings which at the castle architecture. In 1830 William grabbed Burn ( 1789-1870 ) on the style and developed it further. His student and later partner David Bryce (1803-1876) was the most famous representative of the Scottish Baronials. On his plans were, among others Craigends House ( 1857) and built from 1846 to 1850 Balfour Castle back. Another example of this style is Dunrobin Castle, which was extended from 1844 by Charles Barry for the second Duke of Sutherland. However, the probably most famous building is Balmoral Castle, which was built as a summer residence in the Highlands, the British Queen Victoria in the period 1853-1856.
- Examples of Scottish Baronial
Balfour Castle
Dunrobin Castle
Balmoral Castle