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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 56

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nd refinement so late asthe year l627, while Inigo Jones was at the height of his career inEngland. As characteristic of the persistence of the keep-plan inScotland, it may be noted that many who saw this feudal tower build-ing in their youth may have lived to see the classic front of Craighall(now… … Fig. 509.—Scotstarvet Tower. Plans and Section. Like Coxton and other towers of the seventeenth century, Scotstarvetexactly resembles in its general scheme such towers as Kinnaird, Smail-holm, Mearns, or Auchinleck, erected in the fifteenth and sixteenthcenturies; and it is only when one comes to…

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