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 448
facts, derived fromthe photograph, serve to explainthe description of the housegiven by Sir Daniel Wilson inhis Memorials of Edinburgh. An inscription, which was also concealed, runs along the frieze overthe street floor windows, viz. :— LVFE-GOD-ABVFE-AL-AND-YI-NTGHBOVR-AS-YI-SELP. The… … Fig. 1014.— John Knoxs House,Figure of Moses, &c., on South-West Angle. FOURTH PERIOD — 432 WRYCHTIS IIOUSIS Beneath the figure of Moses already referred to there are two spacesfor angle sundials. The south-west corners were favourite positions fordials of this kind. The faces and gnomons are…
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