What is recorded here

Rossend Castle in Burntisland, Fife, is a sixteenth-century stone house built around a thirteenth-century basement that may have been a chapel. Mary, Queen of Scots, stayed there when the French poet Chastelard was found hiding under her bed in 1562. The castle also holds a painted ceiling made for Sir Robert Melville, now preserved in the National Museum of Scotland. It has been surrendered to English soldiers, captured by Cromwell’s men, nearly demolished, restored, and sold again, which makes it less a monument than a place that kept attracting people who wanted to control or enjoy it.

Rossend Castle is shown as a castle on the public map of Fife. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.

Rossend Castle was built in the 13th century by the de Ros family, a prominent Norman noble lineage. It is important as a historical example of a medieval tower house and as part of the defensive and territorial network in medieval Fife.

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