The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland (1909)
Billings, R. W. (Robert William), 1813-1874, Wiston-Glyn, A. W · Edinburg ; T.N. Foulis · leaf 38
streets and lanes are oldfortifications—living memorials of the day when the Scotsmans house wasliterally his castle. Modernization may be more useful for domestic ease andfor sanitary purposes, but our old stone streets have the decided superiority inpicturesqueness and interest. The gloomy masses… … Ill I IIOOL HILL, ABERDEEN. ANTIQUITIES OF SCOTLAND It extraordinary height of the houses, caused by the necessity of keeping withinthe walls, interfered with any attempts at ornament. In the architecture of thetime the decoration was nearly all on the top of the building; and as thehighest flat or…
Architecture · Church architecture
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