Identifier: gri_33125013643560 (find matches)
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
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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MORAY HOUSE, EDINBURGH. In the midst of the vestiges of ancient grandeur, and the indications of modern squalidness,which are so heterogeneously mixed with each other in that fine old street, the Canongate, oneedifice attracts notice as possessing a character of its own which separates it from all the othersin the same spot, and even in the same city. It is old, and it is magnificent, but its age andmagnificence are both different from those of the lofty piled-up houses of the Scottish aristocracyof the Stuart dynasty. Like the hotels of Paris, they were houses built above houses. Theinroads of the English made every yard of ground within the walls valuable, and as the cityincreased, it forced itself upward, instead of extending itself horizontally. Hence, a powerfulnoblemans whole suite of apartments was on one floor or two, of the gigantic toweringedifices pecuhar to Edinburgh; where people, instead of penetrating blind alleys, as in London,ascended upright lanes, called common stai

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