Hutton Castle
Hutton Castle near Chirnside in Berwickshire, Scottish Borders, incorporates medieval fabric within a building substantially rebuilt in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by William Burrell, the Glasgow shipping magnate who assembled one of the world's most remarkable private art collections. Burrell purchased Hutton Castle in 1916 and used it as both residence and repository for his extraordinary collections of medieval art, tapestries, stained glass, paintings and decorative objects, many now housed in the Burrell Collection museum in Glasgow. Sir Robert Lorimer's sympathetic remodelling created a building of considerable historical atmosphere appropriate for Burrell's medieval and Renaissance objects. The surrounding landscape of Berwickshire, with the great Border abbeys at Melrose, Jedburgh, Kelso and Dryburgh nearby, is one of the most scenically and historically rewarding parts of southern Scotland.