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The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . arms there iswhat appears to be a date of the seventeenth century, but the precise yearcannot be made out, the figures being wasted. THE MANSE,* Stirling. This edifice (Fig. 1121), which no longer exists, appears to be thebuilding referred to by Sir Robert Sibbald in his History (published in1739). He says, The ministers manse stands near the east end of thechurch, and looks eastwards to the street called the Back Row, whereinthe fleshers keep their market. It is three stories high, in the lowes
The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . arms there iswhat appears to be a date of the seventeenth century, but the precise yearcannot be made out, the figures being wasted. THE MANSE,* Stirling. This edifice (Fig. 1121), which no longer exists, appears to be thebuilding referred to by Sir Robert Sibbald in his History (published in1739). He says, The ministers manse stands near the east end of thechurch, and looks eastwards to the street called the Back Row, whereinthe fleshers keep their market. It is three stories high, in the lowestwhereof is a stable and coal-house, together with a bake-house and brew- * We are indebted to Mr. Lyon for the Sketch from which this drawing is made,and for information regarding the structure. STIRLING — 21 — FOUKTH PP:RI0E house furn^shed with necessaries at the expense of the reparation box*On the east end there was several years ago the Baxters arms-threepiels. bir Robert was informed that the house was either built orenlarged by one Colonel Edmonds, who was a Baxters son in Fig. U:;1.—The Manse, liom .Soutli-East. The drawing is taken from an unpublished Sketch made many yearsago by a venerable lady still alive, a daughter of General Graham lateGovernor of Stirling Castle, who says that it was always called Thedoor* ^^^ ^^P^^^*^°» 1^0^ W-^s the box for receiving collections made at the church FOURTH PERIOD HOUSE IX ST. Marys wynd Manse, but that in her recollection it was tenanted by a lish and kippermerchant, who hung his wares all round the building. The manse andthe wall, with the round tower on the left, are copied from the old Sketch,which only shows the slightest indication of the east end of the we have drawn more in detail from a Sketch of our own; and whilethe relation of the two buildings to each other is geneially correct, wecannot say that it is absolutely so. HOUSE IN ST. MARYS WYND,* Stirling. This building (Fig. 1122), known
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