. The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century. SECOND PERIOD 122 ARDTORNISH CASTLE superseded an older fortress erected on this site by the Dane. Thebuilding is now a total ruin, but the outline of its walls is still traceable(Fig. 71). They are 8 feet thick, and form a rudely rectangular structure65 feet long by 35 feet wide, perched on the top of the rock. How theinterior has been divided it is impossible to say, but there would appearto have been two windows on the landward side, and one towards the seahaving small external openings with
. The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century. SECOND PERIOD 122 ARDTORNISH CASTLE superseded an older fortress erected on this site by the Dane. Thebuilding is now a total ruin, but the outline of its walls is still traceable(Fig. 71). They are 8 feet thick, and form a rudely rectangular structure65 feet long by 35 feet wide, perched on the top of the rock. How theinterior has been divided it is impossible to say, but there would appearto have been two windows on the landward side, and one towards the seahaving small external openings with wide bays towards the interior. Thedoorway has been at the north end, and from the ingoing a staircase has. Fig. Coeffin. Plan. wound up in the thickness of the wall leading to an upper floor, and nodoubt to a battlemented parapet. The access to the doorway has beendefended with outworks, which probably contained a staircase and draw-bridge, but they are now so destroyed as to render any explanation ofthem impossible. The style of the structure is rather that of the fourteenthcentury than of an earlier date. In point of picturesqueness these ruinsare scarcely to be surpassed. ARDTORNISH CASTLE, Argyllshire. This castle occupies an important place in Scotts Lord of the Isles,and the account given of the buildings is made to correspond with theimposing character of the court of that powerful chief described as held ARDTORNISH CASTLE — 123 — SECOND PERIOD therein. But there is nothing in the existing remains to lead one tobelieve that Ardtornish was ever more than a large keep of the quadri-lateral style of the fourteenth century. The ruins are now reduced to thewall of the base
Size: 1914px × 1306px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, booksubjectarchitectur, booksubjectarchitecture
