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Cluny Castle, Aberdeenshire Gordoh N Slade* Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 111, 1981, 454-492 Cluny Castle, Aberdeenshire GordoH n Slade* investigationAn into originalthe form thisof castle built 1604,c largelyand replacedthe in 1830s by a large mansion in the castellated style designed by John Smith. '. I have learned that a huge mushroom cotton manufactory has been raised up by the proprieto thif ro s beautifu antiquwhicd y b an singulale m hth ege r merit puro s f especimea so n osmotherefw architectsno modern e i ar p dt u ar n' masonry.' James Skene Rubislaw,of 1838 'About 30 years ago he built a splendid addition to the house at Cluny, enveloping the old mansio completa n i castellatew ene d front exterioe th , presentinfinese w th rno f t o piecee gon s of architecture in the north.' Banffshire Journal, July1 1858 'Before leavin turs u nt stands gw le bac takd lat e no Castle kt an evieea i Th th . s f wa eo Colonel Gordon, many years ago, resolved to renovate the old Castle without taking any of it down, which he succeeded in accomplishing most effectually, so that the Castle of Cluny is now one of the finest specimens of masonry that is to be seen in Scotland.' 'Cluny years60 ago': unidentified newspaper cutting, 1900c perhap. ' mose sth t shocking misus architecturaf eo l effor granit d norte an tth hn ei east.' 'Castle Eraser': H Gordon Slade, 1978 The Cluny Castle built by John Smith for Colonel John Gordon c 1820-36 has seldom been viewed with favour save in the columns of an excessively parochial and sycophantic local press. Even professed admirer Gothie th f so c revival have dismisse wordn i dt i ill-conceale f so d and contemptuous patronage. The reason for this distaste is resentment at the loss of the old Cluny romantically sketched and described by James Skene - a Cluny which has acquired an aura of mystery and beauty turning it into a species of 17th-century Aberdeenshire Neuschwand- stein - and the fact that the new Cluny is not nearly gothic enough for the enthusiasts. Hence the commen Jamey tb s Macaulay'.. monstrou.a s swellin smala f go l Z-plan castle whic buries hwa d beneath towers eight storeys high. It is a curiously archaic building in its parts. Twenty years f datliks i o Regencea t t ei ou y buck, grown cankerou oldd an s, flauntin coloure e gth th f so picturesque': clever writing, but inaccurate, as will be shown. lande Th f Clunso y were originally grante Kiny db g Robert Bruce sometime before 1325 r AlexandeSi o t rmarried Fraserha o s sisterdhi wh , , Mary. From this coupl s descendeewa d Margaret Fraser whose husband was Sir William Keith the Great Marischal; their daughter * 15 Southbourne Gardens, London SE12 TABLE 1 e firsTh t GORDONS f Clunyo Alexander Gordon = Jean Stewart d Earl 3r f Huntlyo Thomas Gordon of Auchenhuive Goodman of Cracullie 1 1 John Gordon = Margaret Stuart John Gordon = Margaret Gordon Lord Gordon of Badenoc l> d. of James IV of Cluny d. 1586 f Auchenhuiveo 1 \ \ \ When :e the second family Sir Thomas Gordon = 1. Lady Elizabeth Douglas = 2. Lady Grizet Stewart John Gord< n — Margaret Gordon Agnes = Duncan Leslie Helen = Alexander Murray daughter = Mortimer Marjorie = John Erskine daughter = John Grant of GORDON of Cluny of Cluny d. 1607 d. of the Earl of Douglas Earle f Bissmoirth o f hoi t oo A f. d • of Lesmoir of Pitcaple of Cowbardie of Craigievar of Pittodrie of Carron 1 \ \ I Sir Alexander Gordon == 1. (Violet?) Urquhart = 2. Elizabeth Gordon = 1. Sir John Leslie Patrick Gordon = Jean Leslie William Gordon — Marjory Gordon 3 sons 1 daughter Jean Gordon = Sir George Ogilvy C ordon — Abercrombie f Clunyo . 1694d ? of Craigfintray of Newton of Wardess of Ruthven c f Carnousieo f Clunyo of Cotton f Gordonsmillo ' Cluny f Birkenbogo \ 1 William Gordon John Gordon Sir Alexander Gordo = daughten f Lairo r f do Elizabeth Leslir JohSi n— e Gordon baillie, Old Aberdeen Capt in Swedish service f Clunyo born ante 1615 Newton of Wardess of Cluny'! d, abroad SLADE: CLUNY CASTLE, ABERDEENSHIR5 45 | E married Sir Adam Gordon of Huntly. He was killed, with his two uncles, in 1402 at the Battle of Homildon Hill and the Gordon estates passed to his daughter, Elizabeth. Not only was she heires e Gordone th th legitimate f so th f so alse eosh lin t succeedeebu greae th to dt Keith inheri- tance in south and central Aberdeenshire, which included Aboyne and Cluny. From Elizabeth anr husbanddhe , Alexander Seton Clune th , y lands passe theio dt r son, Alexander t Ear1s f , o l Huntly, and from him, through his son and grandson, to Alexander Gordon, the first Laird of Clunfirse th tf yGordono f Clunyso . Alexander Gordon - the second son of Alexander, 3rd Earl of Huntly - was not to be the founder of the family for the only legitimate child to survive him was his daughter Janet, and Cluny passeyounges hi o dt r brother. John GordonLairdd married 2n e ha , th , d Margaret Gordon, the daughte Thomaf o r s Gordo Auchenhuivf no e- als o knowGoodmae th s na Cracullif no e- and together they raised seven children. John built the castle of Blairfindy where he died in 1586 having marrie fivs dhi e daughter Lairde th f Pitcapleo st o s , Cowbardie, Craigievar, Pittodrie, and Carron, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir Thomas Gordon, 3rd of Cluny. Wit r ThomahSi famile sth y fortunes see mhavo t e reached their highestd pointha e H . married well; his first wife, Elizabeth, being the daughter of the Earl of Douglas, and his second, equally well-born, was Grizel, the daughter of the Earl of Athol. And it was he who was the builder of the castle at Cluny which replaced an earlier house, either on the present site or near to it. Preserved at Cluny is a stone with the inscription 'THOM. GORDON A CLUNY MILES ME FECIT 1604'. This date probably mark finishine likel s th worki e t i th yf o go s ,tha t building 160n i starte 7e Thomar di onl r 1602160n dSi o o i t 1y.s threswa e years afte completioe th r f no his new house and from that date the family fortunes began to decline. Two noble wives, and the cos buildinf o t castl w likele ne ear g a strai o yt fortune Alexander y Si nan d an , r Gordonf o h 4t , Cluny, may have found that on coming into his inheritance much of it had already been dissipated: dissipato t s h eremainderwa e eth . Rather more is known of Sir Alexander than of any other member of his family for he figures frequentl Spalding'n yi s 'History descendants thad hi Trubles'ends f e an oo thi th f, t bu s is obscure. His first wife - said to be called by the improbable name of Violet - was a daughter of John Urquhart, the Tutor of Cromarty and builder of Craigston. By this marriage there was possibl d t leas sona e an , on t firstye twoTh , . also named Alexande beed rha n born between 1612 lattee th 1615d n ri an year s behal s a ,fathes hi hi , n fo r grante dTaca k teine letteth f dro sheaves of various lands in Aboyne to the Marquis of Huntly. This alienation of revenues for ready money suggests that there may already have been financial difficulties to be overcome. This seems to have been only a temporary answer for by 1636 the control of the Cluny propert Alexander'r Si passef d o yha t dou s hands than I . t yea precepa r t unde Greae th r t Seal was given to the Sheriff of Aberdeen to infeft George Morrison in the Mains and Manor place of Cluny as apprised by him from William Coutts of Auchtercoul for a debt of 5,600 merks. How William Coutts laid his hands on Cluny is not recorded, but it seems to have been a fairly thorough gatherin . Usuallgup estatn a f yi e passed int hande oth creditorsf so Laire th d managed house th t thi n ebu i s livo t doen t eo see sno havm o t e bee case doubnt o th Clunye a n d tan , explains why, when Gordon married Lady Lesli 1641n ei Bridae th ,celebrates lwa t Tilliefourda . The description contained in this precept shows how little the Cluny lands have changed in the intervening years '. totes et integras terras dominicales et maneriei locum de Cluny cum dominibus edificiis hortis pomariis et pertinentis earundem lie Woodend de Cluny molendino de Cluny terris molendinariis multuri e knaiffschippeli t e s s earundem molendino fullonum 45 | 6PROCEEDING S OF THE SOCIETY, 1981 s£ Ogo 2 K .oi0(J. - o E-< R§ 8 f 1 j= •*^ •B So*"* "5 n «o * § g o W II .a Q c a K, 3 -5; .£ O .^^ Q W O C; = = n -°& I s Bade. n 2 Is E of n «0 d Huntly d Gordo Huntly Cl r f f of Th o TABL 1 Gor o Gordo e e 1 Gordo Gordon secon 6 n Earl b Earl 1 h . 3rd Georg Ro Alexande Joh Lord b 4t TABLE 3 The third GORDONS of Cluny John Gordon = Mary Lindsay f Clunyo . 176A 9 Cosmo Gordo Mar= n y Baillie Charle Joann= s Gordoa Trotten r Alexander Gordon James Gordon Katherine Gordon Jean Gordon of Cluny d.
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