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Coordinates: 55°4730N 05°0107W / 55.79167°N 5.01861°W / 55.79167; -5.01861
 

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Mount Stuart House
East front of Mount Stuart House
East front of Mount Stuart House
LocationIsle of Bute, Scotland
Coordinates55°47′30N 05°01′07W / 55.79167°N 5.01861°W / 55.79167; -5.01861
Built1879–1900
ArchitectSir Robert Rowand Anderson
Architectural style(s)Gothic Revival
Governing bodyPrivately owned

Listed Building – Category A

Designated20 July 1971
Reference no.LB12052
West front, showing one of the wings surviving from the previous house
Looking up in the Marble Hall

Mount Stuart House, on the east coast of the Isle of Bute, Scotland, is a country house built in the Gothic Revival style and the ancestral home of the Marquesses of Bute. It was designed by Sir Robert Rowand Anderson for the 3rd Marquess in the late 1870s,[1] replacing an earlier house by Alexander McGill, which burnt down in 1877. The house is a Category A listed building.[2]

Background[edit]

The house is the seat of the Stuarts of Bute, derived from the hereditary office "Steward of Bute" held since 1157. The family are male-line descendants of John Stewart, the illegitimate son of King Robert II of Scotland, the first Stuart King, by his mistress, Moira Leitch. By virtue of this descent, they are also descendants of Robert the Bruce, whose daughter Marjorie was mother of Robert II by her marriage to Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland.

History[edit]

Chapel, Mount Stuart House
Chapel interior

The original house was built in 1719 for The 2nd Earl of Bute, but was rebuilt for The 3rd Marquess of Bute following a fire on 3 December 1877.[1] After his earlier creations of Cardiff Castle and Castell CochinCardiff, the Marquess used many of the builders and workman he had employed in South Wales, including William Burges and much of that architect's team. Burges built an oratory at the house.[3] The main part of the present house is a flamboyant example of 19th-century Gothic Revival architecture, built in a reddish-brown stone. Mount Stuart's major features include the colonnaded Marble Hall at the centre of the main block and the Marble Chapel, which has an elaborate spired tower which is the tallest part of the building. Two earlier wings in a strikingly different style survive. They are much smaller in scale, have Georgian-style sash windows and are painted white.[4]

Much of the furniture was custom-designed for the house by Robert Weir Schultz in the early years of the 20th century. He also laid out many sections of the gardens.

The Mount Stuart House claims to have the world's first heated pool in any house;[2] it was also the first home in Scotland to be lit by electricity.[5]

The house holds The Bute Collection, a private collection of artwork and artefacts. The Collection also houses archives, books, furniture, and silverwork reflecting the interests of the Bute family's various generations, including 25,000 books on topics including theology, botany, agriculture and Scottish history and literature.[6] In April 2016 it was announced that a Shakespeare First Folio had been discovered in the House's Library.[7] The folio belonged to Isaac Reed.[8]

The house is open to the public.[9]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ a b "DSA Building/Design Report: Mount Stuart". Dictionary of Scottish Architects. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
  • ^ a b Historic Environment Scotland. "Mount Stuart House (Category A Listed Building) (LB12052)". Retrieved 15 April 2019.
  • ^ Crook 2013, p. 412.
  • ^ Walker 2000, pp. 607–612.
  • ^ Walker 2000, p. 609.
  • ^ Archives, The National. "The Discovery Service". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
  • ^ Coughlan, Sean (7 April 2016). "Shakespeare First Folio discovered on Scottish island". BBC News. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
  • ^ "New Shakespeare First Folio discovered 400 years after his death | University of Oxford". www.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
  • ^ "Mount Stuart House". Retrieved 30 June 2021.
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