Stirling Heads

Stirling Head carving thought to depict Margaret Tudor, 1540

The Stirling Heads are a group of large oak portrait medallions made around the year 1540 to decorate the ceiling of a room at Stirling Castle.[1] The style, in origin, was based on Italian architectural decoration and at Stirling was probably derived from a French source. Similar medallions carved in stone adorn Falkland Palace.[2]

Original "Stirling Heads" displayed at Stirling Castle
  1. ^ Tricia Golledge, "Jane Ferrier and The Stirling Heads'" HES
  2. ^ John G. Dunbar, Scottish Royal Palaces (Tuckwell: Historic Scotland, 1999), pp. 36, 166.