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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GROUND FLOORFig. 167.—Mains Castle. Plans and Section. and has lately been judiciously repaired, is an oblong on Plan (Fig. 167),measuring 37 feet 7 inches from east to west, by 26 feet 10 inches fromnorth to south. It is 41 feet 3 inches high to the parapet walk at thebattlements, and about 12 feet more to the ridge. The entrance (Fig. THIRD PERIOD 232 — MAINS CASTLE 168) is in the south side by a round-headed doorway near the south-westcorner, where also, in the thickness of the wall, a wheel-stair leads to thetop and to the intermediate floors. The ground floor is vaulted, andcontained a loft in the vault (see Section, Fig. 167), the lower division
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Fig. 168. —Mains Castle, from South-West. being lighted by two slits. The entresol or loft in the vault is reached bya passage in the west wall leading off the stair (see entresol. Fig. 167);and in the same wall beyond the passage there is a chamber with a hatchin the floor, giving access to an arched dungeon or cellar, which is quitedark, and from which there seems to have been a small opening into the CATHCART CASTLE — 233 — THIRD PERIOD ground floor, about 12 inches square, now built up. The hall (Fig. 167)occupies the first floor, and is 24 feet 11 inches long by 16 feet 2 incheswide. It is lighted by two windows, which have stone seats. The fire-place is quite plain, and is in the east wall. There is a garde-robe in thenorth wall, and a chamber in the west wall over the one below. In thepassage leading from the hall door to the stair there is a stone sink, whichseems to indicate that the hall also served as the kitchen. The floor aboveenters directly ofl the stair, and was

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