Aldbar Castle, or Auldbar Castle, was a 16th-century

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, located southwest of

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, in

Angus, Scotland Angus ( sco, Angus; gd, Aonghas) is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland, a registration county and a lieutenancy area. The council area borders Aberdeenshire, Dundee City and Perth and Kinross. Main industries include agr ...

History

The estate was owned by the Crammond family since the 13th century before it was sold to

John Lyon, 8th Lord Glamis John Lyon, 8th Lord Glamis (died 1578) was a Scottish nobleman, judge and Lord High Chancellor of Scotland. Life He was the eldest son of John Lyon, 7th Lord Glamis, by his wife, Janet Keith, daughter of Robert Keith, Master of Marischal, and si ...

(c. 1544 – 1575) in 1575. His son Sir Thomas Lyon (died 1608) served as

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from 1585 to 1595, and built the castle in the later 16th century. The property was subsequently owned by the Sinclair family, and then the Young family. The Chalmers family owned the estate in the 18th century. The artist

Clarkson Stanfield Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (3 December 179318 May 1867) was a prominent English painter (often inaccurately credited as William Clarkson Stanfield) who was best known for his large-scale paintings of dramatic marine subjects and landscapes. ...

painted the castle in 1801. Patrick Chalmers (1777–1826) enlarged the castle in 1810, and his son Patrick Chalmers (1802–1854) made Baronial-style additions between 1844 and 1854. A 13th-century grave slab from the castle's chapel is held at the

National Museum of Scotland The National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, Scotland, was formed in 2006 with the merger of the new Museum of Scotland, with collections relating to Scottish antiquities, culture and history, and the adjacent Royal Scottish Museum (opened in ...

in Edinburgh.{{cite web , url=http://nms.scran.ac.uk/database/results.php?field=where&searchterm=%22Aldbar+Castle%22&searchdb=scran , title=Grave-slab From Aldbar Castle, Angus , publisher=National Museums Scotland , accessdate=8 August 2011

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Scotland's Lost Country HousesPhotos of Aldbar Castle
University of Aberdeen Photographic Archive Former castles in Scotland Castles in Angus, Scotland Demolished buildings and structures in Scotland 1580 establishments in Scotland 1965 disestablishments in Scotland