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The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland (1909)

Billings, R. W. (Robert William), 1813-1874, Wiston-Glyn, A. W · Edinburg ; T.N. Foulis · leaf 70

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nd delineates its south and eastern fronts. Its prominentfeature (the tower placed in the angle) is remarkable, for here it appearsas an external feature, instead of being placed, as it almost universally is,upon the inner angle of the building. The tower and the adjoining buildingto the left,… … ANTIQUITIES OF SCOTLAND l^ and one of the window-heads of the eastern front, with its starry-fieldedtympanum (represented in the corner of our plate), belongs to the morerecent parts. Two peculiarities mark the design of the tower. First, On the eastside is a bold corbelling, carrying the…

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