The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . PAISLEY — 13 FOURTH PERIOD. POURTFI PERIOD 14 — PORT-GLASGOW tions in connection with the monastic buildings.* Some portions ofthis structuie Mr. Semple believes to have been erected by the Earlsof Dundonald in the eighteenth century. A passage or pend under the dormitory led into the cloister, and astair led up to the passage running along behind the refectory and on tothe so-called chapter-house. Thus the old Place or mansion-house ofPaisley consisted of three buildings on the west, south, and
The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . PAISLEY — 13 FOURTH PERIOD. POURTFI PERIOD 14 — PORT-GLASGOW tions in connection with the monastic buildings.* Some portions ofthis structuie Mr. Semple believes to have been erected by the Earlsof Dundonald in the eighteenth century. A passage or pend under the dormitory led into the cloister, and astair led up to the passage running along behind the refectory and on tothe so-called chapter-house. Thus the old Place or mansion-house ofPaisley consisted of three buildings on the west, south, and east sides ofthe cloister. St. Mirins Chapel was converted into a burial vault, andthe dormitory over it was connected with the Place. Mr. Semple says that in 1675 extensive additions were made to andin front of the old palace of the Abbots of Paisley by the fourth Earl ofDundonald. These consisted of the building marked C, and the passagejust referred to. These erections (see Eigs. 1113 and 1114) were evi-dently in the late Scottish style, having crow-stepped gables and dormersand comparatively large windows. The buil
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