Crail, Marketgate, Kirkmay House. Interior view.
SC 739265
Description Crail, Marketgate, Kirkmay House. Interior view.
Date c. 1885
Collection Papers of Erskine Beveridge, antiquarian, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 739265
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of F 1922
Scope and Content Sitting Room, Kirkmay House, No 7 Marketgate, Crail, Fife (formerly Kirkmay House Hotel and now private flatted residential accommodation) Kirkmay House, a large Classical villa that stands within an extensive walled garden on the north side of Marketgate, was built in 1817 for Robert Inglis of Kirkmay. The Scottish photographer, Erskine Beveridge, photographed the house on a visit to Crail c.1885. This room has a wood-panelled dado and six-panelled doors in elegant frames with corner roundels. The walls are lined above the dado in paper with a bold oriental pattern, and the furnishings include a fitted corner bookcase and chairs with loose covers in a floral pattern. The room is lit with a central gas light with glass shades. Robert Inglis was a tea and coffee importer who traded with Java, the most developed of the Indonesian islands, and was based for many years in the island's capital, Batavia (now Djakarta). When he returned to Scotland he built 'the most beautiful house in Crail', employing local masons and incorporating an advanced plumbing system so that there was no need for his servants to bring water to the house from the local well. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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