The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . Fig. 1334.— Ashintully Castle. View from South-East. represented by Mrs. Rutherford Lindsay. The lands of Moot-Cloich,called Whitefield, with the glen of Correyraik, seem to have been feuedoff to a cadet of the Spalding family at an early date. The carved dateat Whitefield Castle is almost effaced, but it is of the same century asAshintully. The castle was roofed and entire until the beginning ofthis century, when the slates were taken off and the walls broken downfor materials to build a shephe
The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . Fig. 1334.— Ashintully Castle. View from South-East. represented by Mrs. Rutherford Lindsay. The lands of Moot-Cloich,called Whitefield, with the glen of Correyraik, seem to have been feuedoff to a cadet of the Spalding family at an early date. The carved dateat Whitefield Castle is almost effaced, but it is of the same century asAshintully. The castle was roofed and entire until the beginning ofthis century, when the slates were taken off and the walls broken downfor materials to build a shepherds house. * Fitcairns Criminal Trials, quoted in Historic Scenes in Perthshire, by WilliamMarshall, , p. 208. AUCHENBOWIE 227 FOURTH PERIOD AUCHENBOWIE, Stirlingshire. A large and well-preserved example of a seventeenth century mansion-house. The part shown in the View (Fig. 1335) represents a house of the. ^^itSf^^Sr- — Fig. 1335.—Auchenbowie. View from South-East. L Plan, with an octagonal staircase turret in the re-entering angle. Thereare extensive wings to the west and north, in one of which is situated thepresent entrance (the doorway shown in the View beingnow built up). The arms with the initials G. M. and M. B. (Fig. 1336)are taken from a sundial which stands on the east sideof the house, and they are, we believe, first and fourth, j|^^^^—-^the Monro arms, an eagles head erased; second and j -^ p. Tthird, the Bruce arms ; and from the Retours and Sibbald j (^ V ^Zit appears that both families are designated as of Auchen-1 tv i s—\bowie, the present estate having probably at one time! I V I |^been in two portions. —. —
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