Official guide book to Edinburgh Castle.

Edinburgh castle

Fawcett, Richard

H.M.S.O.

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Scottish medieval churches: An introduction to the ecclesiastical architecture of the 12th to 16th centuries in the care of the Secretary of State for Scotland

Historic Buildings

The Scottish Borders, one of the most architecturally enticing regions of Scotland, encompass rocky coastlines, rolling moors, and farmland. The early buildings reflect a history of conflict, as do the ruins of the numerous great Borders abbeys. The River Tweed provides a delightful setting for the burghs of Peebles, Galashiels, Melrose, and Kelso, where small weavers’ cottages and colossal nineteenth-century mills remain from the once-mighty textile industry.The region boasts country houses of exceptional quality and importance, including Thirlestane Castle, Traquair, and Paxton as well as Abbotsford, the home of Sir Walter Scott, which is world-renowned as the fount of nineteenth-century Romanticism. Other highlights of this comprehensive guide are little-known shooting and fishing lodges, rural steadings, arts and crafts villas, Art Deco schools, and the extraordinary Sunderland House, a building of Miesian purity by Peter Womersley.

Borders (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Scotland)

Arts & Photography

Cruft, Kitty

Dunbar, John

Architecture

Yale University Press

The first in-depth survey of Scotland's medieval church architecture covers buildings constructed between the early 12th century and the Reformation in 1560. From majestic cathedrals and abbeys to modest parish churches and chapels, Richard Fawcett places the architecture in context by considering the varied sources of ideas that underlay church designs. Over the centuries, Scottish patrons and their masons moved away from a close relationship with England to create a unique late medieval architectural synthesis that took ideas from a wide range of sources. The book concludes with an account of the impact of the Reformation on church construction and design.

The Architecture of the Scottish Medieval Church, 1100-1560 (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)

Paul Mellon Centre

From the foundation of Iona in 563 right up to the present day, here is an exploration of the architecture and archaeology of Scotland's monastic orders. The buildings dating from medieval times are some of the most inspiring ever raised on Scottish soil; these and less famous examples come to life through maps, plans, photographs and reconstructions. A 16-page gazetteer includes 71 sites where significant remains can still be seen.

Scottish Abbeys and Priories: (Historic Scotland Series)

History

Europe

Batsford

Set high on its striking volcanic rock, Stirling Castle has been the scene of some of the most dramatic events in Scottish history, culminating in the unsuccessful siege by Bonnie Prince Charlie 200 years ago. It was the last siege of a castle on the British mainland. This text provides the reader with a tour of this historical site and evokes the changing life of the castle and its human dramas. It is a survey of a site which, strategically, was perhaps the most important in the whole of Scotland. It concentrates on the castle's construction, highlighting its pre-eminence from the 12th century and its development and strategic importance over the next 700 years. It also looks at the building of the magnificent royal residence during the 16th century by James IV, James V and James VI, and examines the adaptation of the castle as a major fortress in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Stirling Castle (Historic Scotland)

Travel

B.T.BATSFORD LTD

A detailed study of 13 medieval cathedrals of Scotland. The author also delivers a summary of information currently available on the architecture, history and religious life of all Scotland's cathedrals. A gazetteer is included with a complete set of specially commissioned plans.

Scottish Cathedrals (Historic Scotland)

Chrysalis Books

From the ambitious cathedral and abbey churches to the smaller chapels, and from the great royal palaces to the lesser towerhouses, this volume in The Architectural History of Scotland series is a study of the full range of buildings raised between the late-fourteenth and mid-sixteenth centuries. Placing Scottish architecture within its wider European context, it begins by surveying and analysing the sources of the ideas which underlay the emergence of the country's distinctive late Gothic style, before looking in detail at the individual building types. Copiously illustrated with photographs, engraving and comparative plans of building types, this is the only comprehensive reference guide to the period's architectural history, and is essential reading for both the general and scholarly reader.

Scottish Architecture: From the Accession of the Stewarts to the Reformation, 1371-1560 (Architectural History of Scotland)

Edinburgh Univ Pr

A major difficulty for those who wish to understand and enjoy Scottish medieval churches is the ecclesiological groundwork was not carried out in the nineteenth century in the way that was done for England and other parts of Europe. In an effort to interpret what they see when visiting Scottish churches, many people attempt to apply techniques of analysis they have learned from English publications but that way madness lies. Even in the twelfth and eleventh centuries, when architectural relationships between Lowland Scotland and England were close, Scotland followed its own course in many respects, while in the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries Scottish architecture followed an almost completely different course from that of England. The present ground-breaking work makes good this deficit and analyses the planning and detailing of Scottish churches from 1120 to 1560 with hundreds of illustrated examples that can be firmly dated. The result is a book that will be welcomed by scholars but, equally importantly, will also be treasured by the hundreds of thousands of ordinary church-crawlers who value this aspect of Scotland's medieval heritage. For them this book, overdue by more than 100 years  is a must.

Scottish Medieval Churches

The History Press

The Cistercian abbey of Melrose is perhaps the most beautiful of all Scottish monasteries. This first account in 50 years, by Scotland’s foremost medieval architectural historian and a leading medieval historian, draws on archaeological, architectural, and documentary evidence to show the nature of the monastic visitors, how the abbey’s great estates were administered, and why the architecture of the abbey church is the most important illustration of late Gothic architecture in Scotland.

Melrose Abbey

Politics & Social Sciences

Oram, Richard

Archaeology

Tempus

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