Ardencaple Castle

Ardencaple Castle
Ardencaple Castle
Rhu, Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute, Scotland
	Ardencaple Castle, 1879.
Coordinates	56.0091317, -4.7569701
Height	remaining tower: 45 feet (14 m).
Site information
Controlled by	unknown lairds of Ardincaple: c.1100s-1460s.; MacAulay lairds of Ardincaple: c.1460s-1760s.; Campbells of Argyll: c.1760s-1852.; Colquhouns of Luss: 1852-1923.; H. Stromberg-Macaulay: 1923-1931.; Adelaide Parker Voorheis: 1931-1934.; consortium of developers: 1934-1937.; Royal Navy (HMNB Clyde): 1937-.
Open to; the public	Grounds only.
Condition	1 remaining tower.
Site history
Built	original: c.12th century. ; rebuilt c.18th & 19th centuries.
Built by	original: unknown.; rebuilt: Campbells of Argyll.
In use	c.12th century to 20th century.; Nav aid: 1957-present.
Demolished	1957.

Ardencaple Castle, also known as Ardincaple Castle, and sometimes referred to as Ardencaple Castle Light, is a listed building, situated about 1 statute mile (1.6 km) from Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute, Scotland.^[2]^[3] Today, all that remains of the castle is a tower, perched on the edge of a plateau, looking down on a flat tract of land between it and the shore of the Firth of Clyde.^[4] The original castle was thought to have been built sometime in the 12th century,^[5] and part of the remains of the original castle were said to have existed in the 19th century.^[2] Today, that sole remaining tower is used as a navigational aid for shipping on the Firth of Clyde. Because of its use as a lighthouse the tower has been called Ardencaple Castle Light.^[6]

^ ^a ^b ^c Cite error: The named reference uniquelighthouse was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ ^a ^b Black, Adam; Black, Charles (1861). Black's Picturesque Tourist of Scotland (15th ed.). Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black. p. 440.
^ "Historic & listed buildings". Historic Scotland (historic-scotland.gov.uk). Retrieved 8 May 2008.
^ John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Duke of Argyll (1907). Passages from the past. Vol. 1. London: Hutchinson. p. 185.
^ "Parish of Row". The New Statistical Account of Scotland. Vol. 8. pp. 73–75.
^ Ingram-Brown, Robert (1974). Brown's Nautical Almanac: Daily Tide Tables. Brown, Son & Ferguson.

[uniquelighthouse-1] Cite error: The named reference uniquelighthouse was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[Black-2] Black, Adam; Black, Charles (1861). Black's Picturesque Tourist of Scotland (15th ed.). Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black. p. 440.

[historic-scotland-3] "Historic & listed buildings". Historic Scotland (historic-scotland.gov.uk). Retrieved 8 May 2008.

[PassagesPast185-4] John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Duke of Argyll (1907). Passages from the past. Vol. 1. London: Hutchinson. p. 185.

[NSAS73-75-5] "Parish of Row". The New Statistical Account of Scotland. Vol. 8. pp. 73–75.

[Ingram-Brown-6] Ingram-Brown, Robert (1974). Brown's Nautical Almanac: Daily Tide Tables. Brown, Son & Ferguson.

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