Qualla: Edzell Castle https://qualla.com/edzell-castle en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:25 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/n/5/edzell-castle-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Edzell Castle https://qualla.com/edzell-castle Edzell Castle: Introduction https://qualla.com/edzell-castle/ Photo credit Jonathan Oldenbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0. Step through the gate at Edzell Castle and you walk straight into 1604. The walled garden waiting on the other side, the Pleasaunce as it was called, has nothing else quite like it in Scotland: a rectangular enclosure 52 metres by 43, ringed by red sandstone walls almost twelve feet high, every wall carved with relief panels showing the planetary gods, the liberal arts, and the cardinal virtues. Above each carved panel is a niche where a statue probably once stood. The whole thing is a deliberate puzzle, and historians have spent four centuries arguing about what its creator meant by it.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/n/5/edzell-castle-wp/gfn5-edzell-castle-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Edzell Castle: The Lindsay Who Built A Garden https://qualla.com/edzell-castle/ Photo credit Jonathan Oldenbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0. Sir David Lindsay, Lord Edzell, was educated in Paris and Cambridge and travelled the continent before returning home to extend his family's tower house in the late sixteenth century. His father had built the original tower around 1520. David was knighted in 1581, became a Lord o...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/n/5/edzell-castle-wp/gfn5-edzell-castle-the-lindsay-who-built-a-garden.mp3 0:06 2 full Edzell Castle: Mary, Queen of Scots, Slept Here https://qualla.com/edzell-castle/ Photo credit Jonathan Oldenbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0. Edzell's medieval owners hosted some of the most powerful people in Scotland. Mary, Queen of Scots, arrived on 25 August 1562, on a royal progress north to subdue the rebellious George Gordon, 5th Earl of Huntly. She stayed two nights. She convened a Privy Council meeting in the ...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/n/5/edzell-castle-wp/gfn5-edzell-castle-mary-queen-of-scots-slept-here.mp3 0:06 3 full Edzell Castle: The Carvings In The Walls https://qualla.com/edzell-castle/ Photo credit Jonathan Oldenbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0. The carvings on the east wall pediments combine the symbols of thistle, fleur-de-lis, shamrock and rose, celebrating the Union of the Crowns of the previous year, when James VI inherited the English throne in 1603. The images of the planetary gods are based on engravings made bet...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/n/5/edzell-castle-wp/gfn5-edzell-castle-the-carvings-in-the-walls.mp3 0:06 4 full Edzell Castle: Sevens, Threes, and a Mystery Temple https://qualla.com/edzell-castle/ Photo credit Jonathan Oldenbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0. The garden repeats the number seven and the number three in patterns that have invited interpretation for generations. The carvings come from images that were used in the art of memory, a mnemonic tradition associated with Freemasonry that flowered in Scottish culture during Jame...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/n/5/edzell-castle-wp/gfn5-edzell-castle-sevens-threes-and-a-mystery-temple.mp3 0:06 5 full Edzell Castle: Cromwell, Decline, and a Quiet State Care https://qualla.com/edzell-castle/ Photo credit Jonathan Oldenbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0. Cromwell's troops took Edzell briefly in September 1651, stationed there for a month during the Third English Civil War. The castle escaped the worst of the campaigns against the Covenanters because the Lindsays of Edzell happened to be on the right side at the right moment. The ...

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