The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland (1852)
Billings, R. W. (Robert William), 1813-1874 · Edinburgh W. Paterson · leaf 14
plate screwed to thewall, bearing the date 1561. The head of this window is ornamented by the lairds crest, a boarshead, so beautifully cut as to make one wish that the building had more ornament by tne same hana.The Gordon who was its owner in 1745 is said to have been the last person executed for… … DIRLETON CASTLE. The vast ruins of this castle rise from what at a distance seems a gentle elevation, I)iit, on anear approach, is seen to be a sharp perpendicular rock, though of no great height. It is sur-rounded by a considerable stretch of garden and pleasure ground, kept in punctilious order.…
Architecture · Church architecture
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