Identifier: castellateddomes03macg (find matches)
Title: The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: MacGibbon, David, d. 1902 Ross, Thomas, 1839-1930
Subjects: Architecture Architecture, Domestic Castles
Publisher: Edinburgh : D. Douglas
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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castle by force of arms. On the castle being delivered up, it was thrown down by theordnance, and, while the destruction of its walls was going on, anotherparty went on to Whitton Fort and cast it down. In 1545 Cessforthe,Cessfortheburn, and Cessfort maynes are in the list of places destroyed bythe army of the Earl of Hertford. In 1666 Henry Hall of Hanghead anda number of Covenanters were imprisoned in the castle. It is said thatthe castle ceased to be the dwelling-place of the Kers after 1650. The throwing down and destruction of the castle just referredto are, as is indeed apparent from the ruins, to be understood in theusual limited sense, such expressions being invariably employed to denoteonly the demolition of the defences of a fortress so as to render the placeuntenable. SECOND PERIOD 144 DALHOUSIE CASTLE DALHOUSIE CASTLE,* Midlothian. Beautifully situated on a wooded promontory on the north bank of theEsk, about two and a half miles south-west from Dalkeith, this ancient seat
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Pio. 8$.—Dalhousie Castle. Entrance Doorway. of the Ramsays—although considerably altered and modernised, so as torender it suitable for a noblemans residence at the present day—still re-tains a good deal of its old character and appearance. In approaching the* We have to thank John Bryce, Esq., Architect, Edinburgh, for the use of Plansof this castle. DALHOUSIE CASTLE — 145 — SECOND PERIOD

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