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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
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FYVIE CASTLE. Few parts of Scotland are less known to the traveller than the gently sloping vale of theYthan, in the centre of the Lowlands of Aberdeenshire. It is not near any great highway of com-munication, nor does it boast of the striking scenery which tourists hunt for. Its rich alluvialacres are well prized by sagacious farmers, but farther its fame does not spread. The riverYthan, little broader than a large brook, which curls round the pleasure-grounds of Fyvie Castle, isstill and sedgy. Along with this feature, the grounds, so park-like and carefully, laid out—themeadows and broad trees, and the swans sailing in wide lake-like ponds, remind one of Englishpark-scenery. The good preservation of the castle itself would harmonise with the association,but there is no such edifice in England. It Is indeed one of the noblest and most beatttlful speci-mens of that rich architecture which the Scottish barons of the days of King James YI. obtainedfrom France. Its three princely towe

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