ABSTRACT
Adam’s first rectangular castle design for Sir James Lowther is much more interesting. This is undated, but probably it was designed in 1766. For in that year Adam wrote to Mrs Elizabeth Montagu, that ‘I went to Sir James Lowther’s in Westmorland from which I could see the mountains of Scotland. I own it is most remarkable, cloud capt mountains, extensive lawns, rapid rivers and immense forests are so happily jumbled together in that place. Sir James seems resolved to impose on me the arduous task of building a castle upon this principality. It is a work worthy of the chief artist of Olympian Jove, and not for a narrow genius of this world; I am not at all surprised that you found the castle at Inveraray so defective. The surroundings would humble a nobler piece of human art. Even the most admired works of the Greeks and Romans
Table 5.1 The shapes of the main unbuilt castles
Cross-shaped Terraced Mr Stevenson Edinburgh, Queen
StreetD-shaped TriangularBarnton Castle Barnbougle A/B
Hammerhead shaped U-shaped (complex)Fullarton House Knowsley Castle
Square and rectangular V-shaped
Banner Castle Barnton Castle A/B
Castle Semple Bewley Castle
Dalquharran Castle Harwich
Findlater Castle A/B Lowther Castle A/B/C/D 5-blocks Luton Park Drimmie House Saint Hill House Eastwell Castle The Oaks variant Knockear Castle Wenvoe Castle Lowther Castle A/B Rt Hon Stewart Mackenzie The Oaks A/B/C/D/E/F Colonel St Paul Mr Stevenson
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