The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century (1887)
MacGibbon, David, d. 1902, Ross, Thomas, 1839-1930 · Edinburgh : D. Douglas · leaf 420
Ruthven was createdin 1488. The second tower may pro-bably have been erected by him. Patrick,the third Lord Ruthven (1520-66), was achief actor in the murder of Rizzio, andhis son William was created Earl ofGowrie in 1581. The union of the two towers by building up the spacebetween them was… … Fig. 347.—Ruthven Castle.Corbels at Parapet. THE DEAN CASTLE, Kilmarnock. We have here another example of the extension of a castle by theerection of buildings within the wall of enceinte, but detached fromthe keep. The latter (Fig. 348) is of the ordinary quadrilateral form, and hasall the…
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