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Title: The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Billings, Robert William, 1813-1874
Subjects: Church architecture Architecture Castles
Publisher: London, Published by the author
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ST MARGARETS WELL, RESTALRIG. Alterations of various kinds have so changed thecharacter of the place where this rich fountaingushes forth, that those who have been faraiUar with it of old would find difficulty in discoveringthe spot where it stands, and few will now be able to observe its architectural beauties. In formertimes a mossy bank rising out of pleasant meadows covered the little pillared cell, and the surpluswater running out in a slender rill fell into a pure mountain stream, fed from the springs of ArthursSeat. The spot, though close to two large towns, was solitary, and the most conspicuous objectsin the neighbourhood were the range of Arthurs Seat and Salisbury Crags, with the ruins ofSt. Anthonys chapel on the one side, and those of the old church of Restalrig on the other. Forsome time, the streams from Arthui-s Seat have been made the means of irrigating the surroundingmeadows with the contents of the Edinburgh sewers. It is into this fetid marsh that the watersof St.

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