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Cramond Tower is a fifteenth-century tower house in the village of Cramond to the north-west of Edinburgh, Scotland. ==History== The area around the Tower has had human settlement since the time of Ancient Rome, and there are relics from that time in the area.〔 The Tower was probably built in the late 15th or early 16th century, primarily as a defensive feature, although it could have been built earlier, and may have been mentioned in 1409.〔〔 It was at one stage part of the bishop of Dunkeld's summer residence.〔 It became the property of John Inglis, an English merchant, in 1622.〔 He repurposed the tower to make it more comfortable for occupation, adding and enlarging windows and creating internal recesses to increase the available living space.〔 His grandson moved to the nearby Cramond House in 1680, and the tower was abandoned for the next 300 years.〔 It was portrayed as a romantic ruin by James Skene in 1837, and was in a poor state of preservation by the middle of the twentieth century.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cramond Tower )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Edinburgh, Cramond, Kirk Cramond, Cramond Tower )〕 In the 1960s, the City of Edinburgh Council put a concrete cap on the roof and cleared the vegetation.〔〔 In 1978, it was acquired by Eric Jamieson, an amateur antiquarian.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cramond Tower - A Derelict Property - Rescued, Restored and Reoccupied )〕 Between 1979 and 1981, it was restored by architects Robert Hurd & Partners into a private residence.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=4 Kirk Cramond, Cramond Tower (Ref:28018) )〕 It was damaged by a fire in 2011. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cramond Tower」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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