The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland illustrated, by R. W. Billings [with letterpress by J. H. Burton]. |
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ABBEY OF PAISLEY Abbot Abbot of Paisley Aberdeen Aberdeenshire accompanying plate aisle ancient Antiquities appears arch architecture Ballogie baronial beautiful biggit Bishop Blackwood & Sons building built called Castle Stewart chancel character chimneys church conspicuous Court Yard decorated Douglas Drawn by RW Earl ecclesiastical edifice English Engraved erected fortalice fortress Gothic Gothic architecture inscription interior James King kirk Kirkwall Castle Laird Lord mansion Maybole MELROSE ABBEY Monan monks Moray mouldings Muchalls Nave neighbouring NOLTLAND CASTLE ornament Palace parish peculiar perpendicular picturesque Pinkie PINKIE HOUSE Pluscarden PLUSCARDEN PRIORY portion possession Published by William remains remarkable rich roof ROSSLYN CHAPEL round ruin RW Billings says Scotland Scottish Seton side South Transept Spynie SPYNIE PALACE square tower St Monan stands STIRLING CASTLE stone style TANTALLON CASTLE thairof Tolquhon town tracery transept turrets Udney vaults View walls William Blackwood WINTOUN HOUSE Woodcut
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Side 2 - The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined : Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand In many a freakish knot had twined, Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone.
Side 41 - The lady, before the doors were shut, conveyed herself into her lover's aparment ; but some prying duenna acquainted the countess with it, who, cutting off, as she thought, all possibility of retreat, hastened to surprise them. The young lady's ears were quick : she heard the footsteps of the old countess, ran to the top of the leads, and took the desperate leap of nine feet four inches, over a chasm of sixty feet...
Side 12 - Inverness, came in the morning from the watches, that she was not a man to know what life it was to lie all night in the fields, or to walk upon the causeway with a jack and a knapsack, a Glasgow buckler, and a broadsword.
Side 35 - Seventh, who was then in Scotland, and several other persons well versed in antiquity, to whom my mother would not hearken, thinking it beggarly to be buried after that manner.
Side 35 - Roslin combines the solidity of the Norman with the minute decorations of "the latest species of the Tudor age. It is impossible to designate the architecture of this building by any given or familiar term...
Side 28 - He acquired the lands of Pinkie, where he built ane noble house, brave stone dykes about the garden and orchards, with other commendable policie about it.
Side 35 - The arches and a good deal of the tracery are taken from forms which had been in a great measure abandoned more than a century before the date of the edifice. In fact, it draws on the riches of almost every phase of Gothic architecture, except that which was contemporaneously present in England.