The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland (1852)
Billings, Robert William, 1813-1874 · London, Published by the author · leaf 132
s manuscriptcollections, a sketch of it before its utilitarian adaptation; but it is a simple crow-stepped building,with square windows and an ordinary castellated vault, having no apparent ecclesiastical decora-tions. Near Dysart, on the top of a sea-beaten rock, are the ruins of the castle of… … ST. GILESS CHURCH, EDINBURGH. Few visitors of Edinburgh can fail to be acquainted with the main features of Old St. Giles.A few years ago, when the city was less amply endowed with edifices of a spiral character than itis at present, the airy lantern of this church, situated at so great an…
Church architecture · Architecture · Castles
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