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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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. 51.—Loch Doon Castle. Plan.s. rocks in all directions, so that locomotion round the castle is difficult,and access to the entrances is specially rough and troublesome. The castleconsists of a great wall of enceinte, the form of which (Fig. 51)approaches a circle on Plan, being composed of eleven unequal sides,of which the south side, which is 59 feet long, is about twice the lengthof any of the others, while the opposite or north side, in which is themain entrance, is the shortest, being about 20 feet in length. Measuringover the walls the castle is about 91 feet from east to west, by 80 feetfrom north to south. The walls vary in thickness from 7 feet to 9 feet, LOCH DOON CASTLE — 99 — FIRST PERIOD and as they now stand they are about 26 feet high, A projecting andsplayed base course goes all round the walls on the outside. The masonryis of the most excellent kind, being built with large squared grey freestoneblocks laid in courses, and the corner-stones being wrought to their
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Fig. 52.—Loch Doon Castle. Entrance Gateway—Exterior. respective angles in the most careful manner. The quarry from whichthe stones were brought is believed to have been beyond the foot of theloch, some 10 or 12 miles distant from the castle. The main entrance consists of a fine Early English pointed gateway,9 feet wide (Fig. 52). It was defended with a portcullis, and an inner FIRST PERIOD 100 LOCII DOON CASTLE gate secured with upper and under sliding bars, the holes for whicli arewell preserved (Fig. 53). Contrary to the usual practice, these bars seemto have run into the walls on either side. Nothing remains of the port-cullis chamber, which must have existed above. On the eastern side thereis a small postern 2 feet 8 inches wide, also secured with sliding bars(Fig. 54). The castle has apparently been greatly injured at some period,and afterwards restored. The fine ashlar work distinctly marks the moreancient portions, while the rubble work, carried up on the ashlar substruc-t

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