Identifier: castellateddomes05macg (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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ins an entablature surmounted by a statue of Justice and Wisdom oneither hand. Bas-reliefs of Fame and Peace till the spandrils over thearch, and on the summit a central panel contains the royal arms, whilesmaller side panels (which have been renewed) doubtless displayed thearmorial bearings of the deceased. The monument is well designed and carefully executed in the style ofthe seventeenth century, and was beyond doubt the work of foreignartists. It is a good example of the kind of models by which the Renais-sance was established in Scotland. THE LAUDERDALE MONUMENT, HADDINGTON CHURCH, Haddingtonshire. This monument (Fig. 1317) occupies the north end of a vaultedchapel or aisle, built out to receive it from the north side of the choirof Haddington Church, and is still in a fair state of preservation.The monument is divided into two compartments, each having a deeplyrecessed arch with panelled soffit resting on Corinthian columns of black FOURTH PKRIOD 204 — TIIK LAUDERDALE MONUMENT
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Pia. 1317.—The Laudt:iclali; Mouunieut, lladdiiigloii. THE LAUDKRDALE MONUMENT 205 FOURTH PERIOD marble, with alabaster caps. Above the latter are l)old trusses supportinga cornice and pediment. In the centre of the tympanum are displayed the Maitland arms andsupporters, with smaller shields on either hand. The architraves of thearches are enriched with nine shields on each, blazoned with the familyarms. At the back of each arch is a portrait in a circular frame, andlarge panels beneath these contain inscriptions to the memory of thedeceased. The panels in the continuous pedestal have also been carvedwith similar inscriptions, but they are now scarcely legible. Fortunately,however, all the inscriptions on the monument have been preserved in apaper on the subject in the Transactions of the Society of Antiquaries ofScotland, Vol. i. p. 102, by the Rev. Dr. George Barclay of Middleton. In the left or western compartment are the recumbent figures of JohnMaitland, Lord Thirlestane, and h

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