| Ardencaple Castle | |
|---|---|
| Rhu, Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute, Scotland | |
.jpg) Ardencaple Castle, 1879. | |
| Coordinates | 56.0091317, -4.7569701 |
| Height | remaining tower: 45 feet (14 m).[1] |
| Site information | |
| Controlled by | unknown lairds of Ardincaple: c.1100s-1460s. MacAulay lairds of Ardincaple: c.1460s-1760s. Campbells of Argyll: c.1760s-1852. Colquhouns of Luss: 1852-1923. H. Stromberg-Macaulay: 1923-1931. Adelaide Parker Voorheis: 1931-1934. consortium of developers: 1934-1937. Royal Navy (HMNB Clyde): 1937-. |
| Open to the public | Grounds only.[1] |
| Condition | 1 remaining tower. |
| Site history | |
| Built | original: c.12th century. rebuilt c.18th & 19th centuries. |
| Built by | original: unknown. rebuilt: Campbells of Argyll. |
| In use | c.12th century to 20th century. Nav aid: 1957-present.[1] |
| Demolished | 1957. |
Ardencaple Castle, also known as Ardincaple Castle, and sometimes referred to as Ardencaple Castle Light, is a listed building, situated about 1 statute mile (1.6 km) from Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute, Scotland.[2][3] Today, all that remains of the castle is a tower, perched on the edge of a plateau, looking down on a flat tract of land between it and the shore of the Firth of Clyde.[4] The original castle was thought to have been built sometime in the 12th century,[5] and part of the remains of the original castle were said to have existed in the 19th century.[2] Today, that sole remaining tower is used as a navigational aid for shipping on the Firth of Clyde. Because of its use as a lighthouse the tower has been called Ardencaple Castle Light.[6]
- ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference
uniquelighthousewas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b Black, Adam; Black, Charles (1861). Black's Picturesque Tourist of Scotland (15th ed.). Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black. p. 440.
- ^ "Historic & listed buildings". Historic Scotland (historic-scotland.gov.uk). Retrieved 8 May 2008.
- ^ John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Duke of Argyll (1907). Passages from the past. Vol. 1. London: Hutchinson. p. 185.
- ^ "Parish of Row". The New Statistical Account of Scotland. Vol. 8. pp. 73–75.
- ^ Ingram-Brown, Robert (1974). Brown's Nautical Almanac: Daily Tide Tables. Brown, Son & Ferguson.