Identifier: castellateddomes03macg (find matches)
Title: The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: MacGibbon, David, d. 1902 Ross, Thomas, 1839-1930
Subjects: Architecture Architecture, Domestic Castles
Publisher: Edinburgh : D. Douglas
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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MDCCCLXXXIX the hall a narrow wheel-stair in the thickness of the wall leads to the three upper floors and to the battlements. The parapet walk has been modernised (Fig. 79), the roof, which is supported on a stone arch, being doubtless originally covered with stone, as at Borthwick and Craigmillar. The following description of the entrance doorway by Grose led Dr. J. Hill Burton, as it would most readers, to believe that the castle was a Norman structure. He says : From the plan on which it was built, and the style of the mouldings of the door, which are the only ancient orna- 1 SECOND PERIOD 130 CLOSEBURN CASTLEments now remaining .about the building, it seems that the date of its construction cannot be later than the beginning of the twelfth century.And again : The door is under a circular arch, with a zigzag or dancette moulding rudely cut out of the hard granite. Dr. Burton, however, visited the castle, when he found that Grose was mistaken, and that nothing to support the above statement could be
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Fig. 79.—Closeburn Castle.

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