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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
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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DUNDEE CHURCH TOWER. Perhaps one of the most singular features of Scottish architecture presents itself in the almostuniversal poverty of the church towers erected after the thirteenth century; for we must exceptthose of an earlier period, if either Elgin or Arbroath are to be taken as the general type. Nor,indeed, can we call the lantern towers of Edinburgh, Haddington, or Aberdeen, plain, except bycomparison with the lofty and highly enriched spires of the old English parish churches. At a first glance of the more recent ancient Scotch church towers, it would appear that the castlekeep had been their aim, and that their object was rather the centre of a fortress than the peacefulspire pointing heavenward; but an examination of their attached buildings shows their peacefulmission, abundance of elaborate detail being within reach of the hand. It is, generally speaking, astriking diiference between the churches of the north and south of Britain, that those of Englandgenerally increase

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