The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . Pig. 1151.—Auchtermuchty. House in. FOURTH PERIOD — 44 WEST PORT, ST. ANDREWS the original one. On one of the skew putts there is the date 1629, andon the otlier occur the initials ^^? The same date is carved on the faceof the sundial. The gateway has been defended with strong top and bottomsliding bars, the holes for which, measuring 7 inches by 5 inches, still exist. WEST PORT, ST. ANDREWS, Fifeshire. St. Andrews does not appear to have been a walled city, although ithad at least four ports gu
The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . Pig. 1151.—Auchtermuchty. House in. FOURTH PERIOD — 44 WEST PORT, ST. ANDREWS the original one. On one of the skew putts there is the date 1629, andon the otlier occur the initials ^^? The same date is carved on the faceof the sundial. The gateway has been defended with strong top and bottomsliding bars, the holes for which, measuring 7 inches by 5 inches, still exist. WEST PORT, ST. ANDREWS, Fifeshire. St. Andrews does not appear to have been a walled city, although ithad at least four ports guarding the outlets of its main streets. One. Fig. 1152.—West Port, St. Andrews, Entrance Gateway, South Street. View from West. of these gatehouses was on the north side of the town leading to thecastle, another was in Market Street, and there was one at North Street,which was removed in 1838. The only surviving gateway (Fig. 1152)stands at the entrance to the town at the west end of South Street. Itappears to have fallen into a dilapidated state,when, in 1843, the provost andMr. John Grant of Kilgraston had it renovated, and evidently more than PIFESHIRE — 45 FOURTH PERIOD renovated, for huge, uncouth buttresses projecting into the street wereremoved and substituted by buttresses at once elegant and powerful^ * The port, with its low, sturdy drum towers, bears a considerableresemblance to the gatehouse at Linlithgow Palace,! which was erected byJames v. before the middle of the sixteenth century. The St. Andrews struc-ture is probably a work of the following century, but the date of its erectiondoes not appear to be accurat
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