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The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland (1852)

Billings, R. W. (Robert William), 1813-1874 · Edinburgh W. Paterson · leaf 136

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The author of the Statistical Account,writing in 1834, says, It continued in a very precarious state, till it fell about sixty years ago,and not a stone of it now remains. Grose, writing in 1789, and referring apparently to the sametower, says, Some years ago, in taking down a tower at the… … CORSTORPHINE CHURCH. It has been generally supposed that Scotland, while possessed of several magnificent andextensive remains of gothic architecture, is deficient in the small antique rural churches whichso beautifully harmonize with the landscape scenery of England ; and that their place is too…

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