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Title: The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century
Year: 1887 (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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account byone who evidently saw the arrangement used as the builders intendedmay not be out of place. In describing the House of Cassillis,* thewriter says: The house, in the body of it, is very high, having afine stone stair, turning about a hollow casement, in which are manyopens from the bottom to the top, that by putting a lamp into it gives * History of the Family of Kennedy (Baiinatyne Chib), Appendix, p. 108, being a Description of Carrick, by Mr. William Abercrummie, Minister at May bole. Hewas an Episcopal clergyman in the seventeenth century. HOUSES IN DUNDEE •— 75 FOUKTH PERIOD light to the whole turn of stairs. This exactly describes the staircaseill the Strathmartine mansion-house. The newel measures over all Fig. 1189.—Stratlmiartine Lodging, Dundee. Newel Stair. 2 feet 9^ inches by 1 foot 7^ inches, and the opening extends throughfrom side to side, being slightly hollowed in the centre; the openingsmeasure 1 foot 1^ inches wide. FOURTH PERIOD 76 HOUSES IN ABERDEEN
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Fig. 1190.—Aberdeen. House on School Hill (now demolished). HOTISES IN ABERDEEN FOURTH PERIOD ABERDEEN. The ancient buildings of Aberdeen are, like those of most of ourScottish towns, rapidly disappearing, so that probably before the century finishes most of the towns in Scotland willbe possessed of no more interest to the historian and antiquary than the cities ofAmerica and Australia which have sprung

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