The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . one time a place of some importance, andstill retains the walls of an old building said to have been the residenceof Annabella Drummond, the queen of Robert in. It has also an oldfifteenth century church with a fine font, and the town cross is one of thefinest in the country. The old houses, of which till recently it possessedseveral, are fast disappearing. Fig. 1128, with the carefully-built turret,shows the town residence of the Hendersons of Fordel. The work onthe turret is not unlike that at
The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . one time a place of some importance, andstill retains the walls of an old building said to have been the residenceof Annabella Drummond, the queen of Robert in. It has also an oldfifteenth century church with a fine font, and the town cross is one of thefinest in the country. The old houses, of which till recently it possessedseveral, are fast disappearing. Fig. 1128, with the carefully-built turret,shows the town residence of the Hendersons of Fordel. The work onthe turret is not unlike that at Fordel. * * Vol. 11. p. 237. FOURTH PERIOD — 28 — INVERKKITHING Near the aliove, and on the same side of the principal street, is thelarge block (Fig. 1129) called the Gala Hall. It presents the commonarrangement of a projecting staircase tower, the upper story of whichbecomes a room, approached by a small corbelled stair turret. An arcadehas evidently at one time run along in front of the main block, the pilasterand springing of the arch still existing against the wall of the tower. In an. Fig. 1128.—InverkcitliiiiL. Town House of the Htnclersons of Fordel. angle of the tower, above the door, is a small niche for a figure (Fig. 1130),which would point to the building being of pre-Reformation date. Fig. 1131 is another fragment facing a side street, and containing anentrance doorway and staircase. The adjoining two-storied house, withthe pilastered shop front, is modern. The enlarged Sketch (Fig. 1132)shows the tympanum of the entrance door, with the initials of the builder FIFKSHIRK 29 — FOURTH PERIOD
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