Scotland Magazine section Scottish Follies

Follies and rogue architecture

ALISTER G. FIRTH HAS TRAVELLED AROUND SCOTLAND IN SEARCH OF CURIOSITIES TO PHOTOGRAPH. HERE ARE A FEW OF HIS DISCOVERIES

It was the great landscape designers and architects of the 17th and 18th centuries who came up with the idea of creating follies to embellish the gardens they created and the houses they built. When the sons of wealthy families returned from the Grand Tour, they not only brought back with them the s...

By Alister G Firth from Issue 6 published on 6/2/2003