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'''Coxton Tower''' is a late sixteenth-century [[tower house]] in [[Moray]], Scotland. Heavily fortified, it was built around 1590, with substantive repairs in 1635 and 1645, but its design is reminiscent of much older buildings. It has not been occupied since around 1867, but was renovated in 2001 to help protect the fabric of the structure, which is designated a [[Category A listed building]].
'''Coxton Tower''' is a late sixteenth-century [[tower house]] in [[Moray]], Scotland. Heavily fortified, it was built around 1590, with substantive repairs in 1635 and 1645, but its design is reminiscent of much older buildings. It has not been occupied since around 1867 except to house Canadian soldiers during the Second World War, but was renovated in 2001 to help protect the fabric of the structure, which is designated a [[Category A listed building]].


==Description==
==Description==
Coxton Tower is a relatively small, four-storey fortified [[tower house]], about {{convert|1|km|mi|sigfig=1}} south of [[Lhanbryde]] in [[Moray]], Scotland.<ref name="Pevsner" /> Approximately {{convert|7|m|ft}} square in plan,<ref name="Pevsner" /> it is in an unusually good state of repair for an uninhabited building of its age.<ref name="Pevsner">{{cite book |last1=Walker |first1=David W. |last2=Woodworth |first2=Matthew |title=The Buildings of Scotland – Aberdeenshire: North and Moray |date=2015 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven |isbn=9780300204285 |pages=510-512}}</ref> Although it was built around 1590, its style is old-fashioned for that date; [[Charles McKean]] has described it as 'grossly antiquated',<ref name="McKean">{{cite book |last1=McKean |first1=Charles |title=The District of Moray – An Illustrated Architectural Guide |date=1987 |publisher=Scottish Academic Press and RIAC Publishing |location=Edinburgh |isbn=1873190484 |page=110}}</ref> and Walker and Woodworth describe it as 'remarkably antiquated', comparing it to rudimentary tower designs of the early fifteenth century.<ref name="Pevsner" />
Coxton Tower is a relatively small, four-storey fortified [[tower house]], about {{convert|1|km|mi|sigfig=1}} south of [[Lhanbryde]] in [[Moray]], Scotland.<ref name="Pevsner" /> Approximately {{convert|7|m|ft}} square in plan,<ref name="Pevsner" /> it is in an unusually good state of repair for an uninhabited building of its age.<ref name="Pevsner">{{cite book |last1=Walker |first1=David W. |last2=Woodworth |first2=Matthew |title=The Buildings of Scotland – Aberdeenshire: North and Moray |date=2015 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven |isbn=9780300204285 |pages=510–512}}</ref> Although it was built around 1590, its style is old-fashioned for that date; [[Charles McKean]] has described it as "grossly antiquated",<ref name="McKean">{{cite book |last1=McKean |first1=Charles |title=The District of Moray – An Illustrated Architectural Guide |date=1987 |publisher=Scottish Academic Press and RIAC Publishing |location=Edinburgh |isbn=1873190484 |page=110}}</ref> and Walker and Woodworth describe it as "remarkably antiquated", comparing it to rudimentary tower designs of the early fifteenth century.<ref name="Pevsner" />

There would originally have been a courtyard and [[barmkin]] attached to the building, but no trace of these survive.<ref name="Pevsner" /> The tower has been uninhabited since around 1867.<ref name="Pevsner" />


===Exterior===
===Exterior===
There is a simple [[chamfer|chamfered]] doorway at ground level in the south wall, giving access to the sunken ground floor store room. The main entrance, also in the south wall, is on the first floor;<ref name="HistEnvScot">{{Historic Environment Scotland|num=LB15774|desc=COXTON TOWER|cat=A|accessdate=7 July 2019}}</ref> this is currently reached via a stairway added around 1846, but would originally have been reached using a ladder.<ref name="Pevsner" /> Above this entrance is an [[Roll of arms|armorial]] panel, with the initials of Alexander Innes, who built the tower, and of Robert Innes of Invermarkie, his [[Feudalism|feudal]] superior.<ref name="ABDCouncil" /> Also mentioned are Janet Reid, Alexander Innes's first wife, and Kate Gordon, his second.<ref name="Pevsner" />
There is a simple [[chamfer]]ed doorway at ground level in the south wall, giving access to the sunken ground floor store room. The main entrance, also in the south wall, is on the first floor;<ref name="HistEnvScot">{{Historic Environment Scotland|num=LB15774|desc=Coxton Tower|cat=A|access-date=7 July 2019}}</ref> this is currently reached via a stairway added around 1846, but would originally have been reached using a ladder.<ref name="Pevsner" /> Above this entrance is an [[Roll of arms|armorial]] panel, with the initials of Alexander Innes, who built the tower, and of Robert Innes of Invermarkie, his [[Feudalism|feudal]] superior.<ref name="ABDCouncil" /> Also mentioned are Janet Reid, Alexander Innes's first wife, and Kate Gordon, his second.<ref name="Pevsner" /> There would originally have been a courtyard and [[barmkin]] attached to the building, but no traces of these survive.<ref name="Pevsner" />


The tower's walls, which are up to {{convert|1.4|m|ft}} thick,<ref name="ABDCouncil">{{cite web |title=Moray HER – NJ26SE0008 – COXTON TOWER |url=https://online.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/smrpub/master/detail.aspx?refno=NJ26SE0008 |website=Aberdeenshire Council |publisher=Aberdeenshire Council |accessdate=13 July 2019}}</ref> are [[rubble]]-built and [[Harling (wall finish)|harled]] with [[ashlar]] detailing, and there are [[Embrasure|gun loops]] in the north, east and west walls on the ground floor.<ref name="HistEnvScot" /> Additional gun holes are to be found in the [[Corbel|corbelled]] [[bartizans]] on the south-east and north-west corners, which have conical rooves, and on the open, [[battlement|crennalated]] bartizan on the south west corner.<ref name="HistEnvScot" /> No timber is used in the fabric of the building, and even the roof is made of stone; it is believed that this is a design element intended to help it withstand fire as well as external attack.<ref name="Pevsner" /><ref name="McKean" /> The roof is steeply [[Roof pitch|pitched]], with [[Crow-stepped gable|crow-stepped gables]] at the east and west ends; there are chimney stacks at the apex of each gable, and a tall chimney, largely rebuilt in the mid-nineteenth century, in the middle of the south wall.<ref name="Pevsner" />
The tower's walls, which are up to {{convert|1.4|m|ft}} thick,<ref name="ABDCouncil">{{cite web |title=Moray HER – NJ26SE0008 – Coxton Tower |url=https://online.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/smrpub/master/detail.aspx?refno=NJ26SE0008 |website=Aberdeenshire Council |publisher=Aberdeenshire Council |access-date=13 July 2019}}</ref> are [[rubble]]-built and [[Harling (wall finish)|harled]] with [[ashlar]] detailing, and there are [[Embrasure|gun loops]] in the north, west, and east walls on the ground floor.<ref name="HistEnvScot" /> Additional gun holes are to be found in the [[corbel]]led [[bartizans]] on the south-east and north-west corners, which have conical roofs, and on the open, [[battlement|crenellated]] bartizan on the south-west corner.<ref name="HistEnvScot" /> No timber is used in the fabric of the building, and even the roof is made of stone; it is believed that this is a design element intended to help it withstand fire as well as external attack.<ref name="Pevsner" /><ref name="McKean" /> The roof is steeply [[Roof pitch|pitched]], with [[stepped gable]]s at the east and west ends; there are chimney stacks at the apex of each gable, and a tall chimney, largely rebuilt in the mid-nineteenth century, in the middle of the south wall.<ref name="Pevsner" />


===Interior===
===Interior===
Each storey of the tower is a single room, with a [[Vaulting (architecture)|stone-vaulted]] ceiling. The orientation of the vaulting alternates between north-south and east-west on each storey, in a rare arrangement that helps to counteract the lateral thrust of the vaulting in the levels above and below each storey.<ref name="Pevsner" /> The ground floor, which is somewhat below ground level, served as a store room, and provided protection for cattle when necessary; a hatch in the vaulted roof communicates with the hall above, and would have provided a means of passing goods between the store room and the living accommodation.<ref name="Pevsner" />
Each storey of the tower is a single room, with a [[Vaulting (architecture)|stone-vaulted]] ceiling. The orientation of the vaulting alternates between north–south and east–west on each storey, in a rare arrangement that helps to counteract the lateral thrust of the vaulting in the levels above and below each storey.<ref name="Pevsner" /> The ground floor, which is somewhat below ground level, served as a store room, and provided protection for cattle when necessary; a hatch in the vaulted roof communicates with the hall above, and would have provided a means of passing goods between the store room and the living accommodation.<ref name="Pevsner" />


The first floor, which was protected from intruders by a surviving iron [[yett]], served as a small [[hall]]. It features a fireplace that was installed around 1820, an [[ambry|aumbry]] and a window with a panel displaying the [[Coat of arms|arms]] of Sir Alexander Innes and Mary Mackenzie, his second wife, believed to date from after 1647 (when Maria Gordon, his first wife, died).<ref name="HistEnvScot" /> A staircase in the north east corner, built into the thickness of the wall, leads to the upper floors. The second floor has two recessed windows, one in the western wall next to a square [[aumbry]], and one in the southern wall which incorporates another gun-loop. The third floor has a tall vaulted ceiling supporting the stone roof above it, and rectangular entrances to the bartizans, which each feature further gun-loops.<ref name="Pevsner" />
The first floor, which was protected from intruders by a surviving iron [[yett]], served as a small [[hall]]. It features a fireplace that was installed around 1820, an [[ambry|aumbry]] and a window with a panel displaying the [[Coat of arms|arms]] of Sir Alexander Innes and Mary Mackenzie, his second wife, believed to date from after 1647 (when Maria Gordon, his first wife, died).<ref name="HistEnvScot" /> A staircase in the north-east corner, built into the thickness of the wall, leads to the upper floors. The second floor has two recessed windows, one in the western wall next to a square [[ambry|aumbry]], and one in the southern wall which incorporates another gun loop. The third floor has a tall vaulted ceiling supporting the stone roof above it, and rectangular entrances to the bartizans, which each feature further gun loops.<ref name="Pevsner" />


==History==
==History==
[[File:Coxton 1.jpg|right|thumb|180px|A 1901 engraving, depicting the tower before the addition of the external stair]]
[[File:Coxton 2.jpg|right|thumb|upright=.9|A 1901 engraving, depicting the tower before the addition of the external stair]]
In 1572, Alexander Innes was granted a royal [[Licence to crenellate|licence]] to build a tower house on the site, but his initial tower was completely destroyed by fire in 1584. A new tower was built, which appears on a map by [[Timothy Pont]] from around 1590, and much of the surviving fabric of the building dates from that construction, although repairs were necessary after attacks in 1635 and 1645.<ref name="Pevsner" /> Armorial panels found in the building refer to his grandson, Sir Alexander Innes,<ref name="HistEnvScot" /> the second Baron of Innes,<ref name="ABDCouncil" /> whose memorial can be found at the burial ground at [[Lhanbryde]].<ref name="Pevsner" />
In 1572, Alexander Innes was granted a royal [[Licence to crenellate|licence]] to build a tower house on the site, but his initial tower was completely destroyed by fire in 1584. A new tower was built, which appears on a map by [[Timothy Pont]] from around 1590, and much of the surviving fabric of the building dates from that construction, although repairs were necessary after attacks in 1635 and 1645.<ref name="Pevsner" /> Armorial panels found in the building refer to his grandson, Sir Alexander Innes,<ref name="HistEnvScot" /> the second Baron of Innes,<ref name="ABDCouncil" /> whose memorial can be found at the burial ground at [[Lhanbryde]].<ref name="Pevsner" />


The tower and its estate were sold to [[Braco's Banking House|William Duff of Dipple]] in 1714, and were retained by his descendants, the [[Earls of Fife|Earls]] and [[Dukes of Fife|Dukes of Fife]], until 1910,<ref name="Pevsner" /> when it was sold to the family of Malcolm Christie, its current owner.<ref name="Inglis">{{cite thesis|degree=PhD |last1=Inglis |first1=Janet |title=Scotland's Castles Rescued, Rebuilt and Reoccupied, 1945–2010 |url=https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/1223344/Inglis_phd_2011.pdf |website=University of Dundee |publisher=University of Dundee |accessdate=4 August 2019}}</ref> Although it never became a domestic residence again, it was used to house Canadian soldiers during the [[World War II|Second World War]].<ref name="Inglis" />
The tower and its estate were purchased by [[Braco's Banking House|William Duff of Dipple]] in 1714, and were retained by his descendants, the [[Earls of Fife|Earls]] and [[Dukes of Fife]], until 1910,<ref name="Pevsner" /> when it was sold to the family of Malcolm Christie, its current owner.<ref name="Inglis">{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |last1=Inglis |first1=Janet |title=Scotland's Castles Rescued, Rebuilt and Reoccupied, 1945–2010 |url=https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/1223344/Inglis_phd_2011.pdf |website=University of Dundee |publisher=University of Dundee |access-date=4 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190804165322/https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/1223344/Inglis_phd_2011.pdf |archive-date=4 August 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> The tower has been uninhabited since around 1867 except to house Canadian soldiers during the Second World War.<ref name="Pevsner" /><ref name="Inglis" />


Coxton Tower was designated a [[scheduled monument]] in 1920, <ref name="HES_Schedule">{{cite web |title=Coxton Tower |url=http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/SM1228 |website=Historic Environment Scotland Portal |publisher=Historic Environment Scotland |accessdate=13 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190713202712/http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/SM1228 |archive-date=13 July 2019 |dead-url=no }}</ref> and was subsequently recognised as a [[Category A listed building]] in 1971.<ref name="HistEnvScot" />
Coxton Tower was designated a [[scheduled monument]] in 1920,<ref name="HES_Schedule">{{cite web |title=Coxton Tower |url=http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/SM1228 |website=Historic Environment Scotland Portal |publisher=Historic Environment Scotland |access-date=13 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190713202712/http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/SM1228 |archive-date=13 July 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> and was subsequently recognised as a [[Category A listed building]] in 1971.<ref name="HistEnvScot" />


In 2001,<ref name="Pevsner" /> LTM Group were engaged by the architects Law & Dunbar-Nasmith on behalf of the current owner to undertake restoration work on the fabric of the building. This involved work on the stone roof, and consolidation of the harling and [[whitewash|limewashing]].<ref name="TradMasonry">{{cite web |title=Coxton Tower – Lhanbryde, Moray |url=http://traditionalmasonry.co.uk/ProjectCaseStudies/ProjectCaseStudy.aspx?id=28#../CmsProjectCaseStudyImages/Project_28_CT_01.jpg |website=LTM Group |publisher=LTM Group |accessdate=13 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170710204836/http://www.traditionalmasonry.co.uk/ProjectCaseStudies/ProjectCaseStudy.aspx?id=28#../CmsProjectCaseStudyImages/Project_28_CT_01.jpg |archive-date=10 July 2017 |dead-url=no }}</ref>
In 2001,<ref name="Pevsner" /> LTM Group were engaged by the architects Law & Dunbar-Nasmith on behalf of the current owner to undertake restoration work on the fabric of the building. This involved work on the stone roof, and consolidation of the harling and [[whitewash|lime washing]].<ref name="TradMasonry">{{cite web |title=Coxton Tower – Lhanbryde, Moray |url=http://traditionalmasonry.co.uk/ProjectCaseStudies/ProjectCaseStudy.aspx?id=28#../CmsProjectCaseStudyImages/Project_28_CT_01.jpg |website=LTM Group |publisher=LTM Group |access-date=13 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170710204836/http://www.traditionalmasonry.co.uk/ProjectCaseStudies/ProjectCaseStudy.aspx?id=28#../CmsProjectCaseStudyImages/Project_28_CT_01.jpg |archive-date=10 July 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref>


Coxton Tower was removed from the scheduled monuments register in 2018, as this largely duplicated by its listed building status.<ref name="HES_Schedule" />
Coxton Tower was removed from the scheduled monuments register in 2018, as this largely duplicated its listed building status.<ref name="HES_Schedule" />


== References ==
== References ==
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== External links ==
== External links ==
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* [https://twitter.com/coxtontower Twitter feed]
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[[Category:Category A listed buildings in Moray]]
[[Category:Category A listed buildings in Moray]]
[[Category:Castles in Moray]]
[[Category:Castles in Moray]]
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Coxton Tower
The tower viewed from the south, May 1990
TypeTower house
LocationNear Lhanbryde, Moray
Coordinates57°37′50″N 3°14′16″W / 57.63056°N 3.23778°W / 57.63056; -3.23778
Built1590
Built forAlexander Innes
Designated1920
Delisted2018
Reference no.SM1228
Listed Building – Category A
Designated1971
Reference no.LB15774
Coxton Tower is located in Scotland
Coxton Tower
Location of the tower in Scotland

Coxton Tower is a late sixteenth-century tower house in Moray, Scotland. Heavily fortified, it was built around 1590, with substantive repairs in 1635 and 1645, but its design is reminiscent of much older buildings. It has not been occupied since around 1867 except to house Canadian soldiers during the Second World War, but was renovated in 2001 to help protect the fabric of the structure, which is designated a Category A listed building.

Description

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Coxton Tower is a relatively small, four-storey fortified tower house, about 1 kilometre (0.6 mi) south of Lhanbryde in Moray, Scotland.[1] Approximately 7 metres (23 ft) square in plan,[1] it is in an unusually good state of repair for an uninhabited building of its age.[1] Although it was built around 1590, its style is old-fashioned for that date; Charles McKean has described it as "grossly antiquated",[2] and Walker and Woodworth describe it as "remarkably antiquated", comparing it to rudimentary tower designs of the early fifteenth century.[1]

Exterior

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There is a simple chamfered doorway at ground level in the south wall, giving access to the sunken ground floor store room. The main entrance, also in the south wall, is on the first floor;[3] this is currently reached via a stairway added around 1846, but would originally have been reached using a ladder.[1] Above this entrance is an armorial panel, with the initials of Alexander Innes, who built the tower, and of Robert Innes of Invermarkie, his feudal superior.[4] Also mentioned are Janet Reid, Alexander Innes's first wife, and Kate Gordon, his second.[1] There would originally have been a courtyard and barmkin attached to the building, but no traces of these survive.[1]

The tower's walls, which are up to 1.4 metres (4.6 ft) thick,[4] are rubble-built and harled with ashlar detailing, and there are gun loops in the north, west, and east walls on the ground floor.[3] Additional gun holes are to be found in the corbelled bartizans on the south-east and north-west corners, which have conical roofs, and on the open, crenellated bartizan on the south-west corner.[3] No timber is used in the fabric of the building, and even the roof is made of stone; it is believed that this is a design element intended to help it withstand fire as well as external attack.[1][2] The roof is steeply pitched, with stepped gables at the east and west ends; there are chimney stacks at the apex of each gable, and a tall chimney, largely rebuilt in the mid-nineteenth century, in the middle of the south wall.[1]

Interior

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Each storey of the tower is a single room, with a stone-vaulted ceiling. The orientation of the vaulting alternates between north–south and east–west on each storey, in a rare arrangement that helps to counteract the lateral thrust of the vaulting in the levels above and below each storey.[1] The ground floor, which is somewhat below ground level, served as a store room, and provided protection for cattle when necessary; a hatch in the vaulted roof communicates with the hall above, and would have provided a means of passing goods between the store room and the living accommodation.[1]

The first floor, which was protected from intruders by a surviving iron yett, served as a small hall. It features a fireplace that was installed around 1820, an aumbry and a window with a panel displaying the arms of Sir Alexander Innes and Mary Mackenzie, his second wife, believed to date from after 1647 (when Maria Gordon, his first wife, died).[3] A staircase in the north-east corner, built into the thickness of the wall, leads to the upper floors. The second floor has two recessed windows, one in the western wall next to a square aumbry, and one in the southern wall which incorporates another gun loop. The third floor has a tall vaulted ceiling supporting the stone roof above it, and rectangular entrances to the bartizans, which each feature further gun loops.[1]

History

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A 1901 engraving, depicting the tower before the addition of the external stair

In 1572, Alexander Innes was granted a royal licence to build a tower house on the site, but his initial tower was completely destroyed by fire in 1584. A new tower was built, which appears on a map by Timothy Pont from around 1590, and much of the surviving fabric of the building dates from that construction, although repairs were necessary after attacks in 1635 and 1645.[1] Armorial panels found in the building refer to his grandson, Sir Alexander Innes,[3] the second Baron of Innes,[4] whose memorial can be found at the burial ground at Lhanbryde.[1]

The tower and its estate were purchased by William Duff of Dipple in 1714, and were retained by his descendants, the Earls and Dukes of Fife, until 1910,[1] when it was sold to the family of Malcolm Christie, its current owner.[5] The tower has been uninhabited since around 1867 except to house Canadian soldiers during the Second World War.[1][5]

Coxton Tower was designated a scheduled monument in 1920,[6] and was subsequently recognised as a Category A listed building in 1971.[3]

In 2001,[1] LTM Group were engaged by the architects Law & Dunbar-Nasmith on behalf of the current owner to undertake restoration work on the fabric of the building. This involved work on the stone roof, and consolidation of the harling and lime washing.[7]

Coxton Tower was removed from the scheduled monuments register in 2018, as this largely duplicated its listed building status.[6]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Walker, David W.; Woodworth, Matthew (2015). The Buildings of Scotland – Aberdeenshire: North and Moray. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 510–512. ISBN 9780300204285.
  2. ^ a b McKean, Charles (1987). The District of Moray – An Illustrated Architectural Guide. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press and RIAC Publishing. p. 110. ISBN 1873190484.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Historic Environment Scotland. "Coxton Tower (Category A Listed Building) (LB15774)". Retrieved 7 July 2019.
  4. ^ a b c "Moray HER – NJ26SE0008 – Coxton Tower". Aberdeenshire Council. Aberdeenshire Council. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
  5. ^ a b Inglis, Janet. Scotland's Castles Rescued, Rebuilt and Reoccupied, 1945–2010 (PDF). University of Dundee (PhD thesis). University of Dundee. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 August 2019. Retrieved 4 August 2019.
  6. ^ a b "Coxton Tower". Historic Environment Scotland Portal. Historic Environment Scotland. Archived from the original on 13 July 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
  7. ^ "Coxton Tower – Lhanbryde, Moray". LTM Group. LTM Group. Archived from the original on 10 July 2017. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
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