What is recorded here

Farnell Castle is a late 16th-century oblong tower house in Angus, Scotland, built on a site where King Edward I of England stayed one night in 1296 before travelling to Brechin Castle. Bishop Meldrum called it Palatium Nostrum in 1512, and the east section still bears crow-stepped gables, carved shields marked M and I.M., and a projecting garderobe with sanitary flues. Catherine, Countess of Crawford, turned the bishop’s palace into a secular castle, while the Earl of Southesk later purchased it and the 19th century reduced it to an alms house. The circular stair tower, ruined dovecot, and rubble walls suggest a place where prayer, power, poverty, and occupancy kept changing hands without losing their shape.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Farnell Castle as Tower House (medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Farnell Castle is a medieval tower house located in Scotland, built during the late 15th or early 16th century, likely by a local landholding family. It is remembered as an example of the defensive and domestic architecture typical of the Scottish Borders during the medieval period.

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