The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . IC U53AC Pii;. 11-22.—Hiiuse in St. Wyud. tions on the dormers are given to an enlarged scale at the bottom of theillustration. We are unable to trace the names represented by the initials,but the dates (1633 and 1697) speak for themselves. This house wasfinished in the interior with considerable care and richness, and Fig. 1123* The Sketch of this house is kindly supplied by Mr. Lyon. STIRLING 23 FOURTH PKIUOD shows two of its fireplaces. They were executed in stone, and are verycharacte
The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . IC U53AC Pii;. 11-22.—Hiiuse in St. Wyud. tions on the dormers are given to an enlarged scale at the bottom of theillustration. We are unable to trace the names represented by the initials,but the dates (1633 and 1697) speak for themselves. This house wasfinished in the interior with considerable care and richness, and Fig. 1123* The Sketch of this house is kindly supplied by Mr. Lyon. STIRLING 23 FOURTH PKIUOD shows two of its fireplaces. They were executed in stone, and are verycharacteristic specimens of the internal decoration of the Fig. 11-23.—House in St. Marys Wynd. Kin-places. TOWNS LYING ON THE NOETH AND SOUTH SIDESOF THE FEITH OF FOIITH. The numerous smaller towns situated on both sides of the Forthenjoyed considerable prosperity during the sixteenth and seventeenthcenturies, and present specimens of Scottish domestic architecture quiteequal to those found in the cathedral and other more important , nowhere does our town and village architecture appear to suchadvantage as along the margins of the Forth. Most of the other Scottishburghs have grown prosperous in recent times, and have in their pros-perity obliterated almost every architectural mark of their connectionwith Scottish history. But in the quiet towns in the locality referred toso many changes have not occurred, and thus many striking features ofthe old domestic architecture have survived. During the fifteenth andsixteenth centuries, and even earlier, a considerable trade was carried onbetween the ports on the Frith of Forth and the C
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