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Author : Alexander Hastie Millar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Angus (Scotland)
ISBN : HARVARD:32044081258915
Author : Martin Coventry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1899874240
A must for all those who want to visit Scotland's many castles. The book covers all of the coutry's famous strongholds, as well as many lesser-known places, with location, access, visitor facilities, and contact details. There is a map, many photos, a glossary of architectural terms, and a family-name index, allowing the reader to identify any castle associated with their family.
Author : Alexander Hastie Millar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Castles
ISBN : LCCN:lc02022895
Author : Martin Coventry
Publisher : Anchor Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07
Category : Castles
ISBN : 1899874577
The best castles, historic houses, royal palaces, and stately homes to visit in Scotland. Contains detailed entries with locations, description, ownership, plan, and drawings. 64 pages of color photographs.
Author : Martin Coventry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Castles
ISBN : 1899874569
The definitive and most comprehensive collection on castles, towers, and fortified houses of Scotland, with historical accounts, visitor information, and maps.
Author : Stuart Reid
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782004387
With the exception of the key royal sites, such as Stirling and Edinburgh, few Scottish castles were located at strategic points, or were intended to house garrisons required to defend or subjugate towns. Instead they were primarily fortified dwelling houses, erected in an environment of weak Royal authority and endemic feuding between rival clans and groups, in both Highland and Lowland areas. Although some enceinte castles were developed during the 16th and 17th centuries, most defensive construction focused on the tower house, a distinctive vernacular style of Scottish fortification. This book examines the design, development, and purpose of these quintessentially Scottish buildings, and also covers larger sites such as Urquhart and Blackness.
Author : Martin Coventry
Publisher : Birlinn Publishers
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015067650021
The Castles of Scotland is the most complete and comprehensive guide available to the nations wealth of castles. This new edition is the culmination of 10 years research, and covers more than 2700 castles as well as mansions and historic houses, all alphabetically organised, with detailed maps, visiting information, illustrations, and anecdotes of hauntings and family histories. This is the bible of Scottish castles, an absolute must for all castle enthusiasts and anyone interested in Scottish history.
Author : Martin Coventry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025958682
This new edition has been called "the bible of Scottish castles." It is the only book to cover all of them -- a comprehensive reference and gazetteer to more than 2,700 castles and fortified sites. Heavily illustrated throughout with more than 300 photographs and drawings, this new edition has been completely revised, expanded, and updated, with information on 600 new sites. This is an easy-to-use alphabetical guide and gazetteer, with comprehensive listings, index of sites reputed to be haunted, a family names index, and twenty pages of maps locating every castle in Scotland. No castle enthusiast should be without this book. The culmination of ten years' research, The Castles of Scotland offers comprehensive information on the fortified buildings of Scotland, including histories, ownership, locations, facilities, and visitor access. The 2,700 sites discussed include the largest strongholds to the smallest ruins to mere sites. The history of a castle is as important as the physical remains. Some strongholds have a long and fascinating past yet no more than a vestige of their former strength survives, such as the castles at Inverness, Roxburgh, or Dunbar. Few castles can match the stark and romantic beauty of Eilean Donan Castle, or the majestic and imposing grandeur of Ballindalloch Castle or Crathes Castle, the dangerous cliffside setting of Dunnottar Castle, or the picturesque Kilchurn Castle. New for this edition: -- 670 new sites added -- historic houses and mansions open to the public now included -- improved and increased number of illustrations -- updated, corrected and more-detailed entries -- access details for the year 2001 and full list of facilities nowincluded -- 16 pages of full color photographs added to the cloth edition
Author : Martin Coventry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 1899874119
Information about some of the castles and mansions in Scotland which are most worth visiting.
Author : Christopher J. Tabraham,C. J. Tabraham
Publisher : Stationery Office Books (TSO)
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Architecture
ISBN : WISC:89079642021
These easy-to-read books are a perfect introduction to the history of Scotland. Full of little-know facts and color illustrations, these books help bring history to life. The Stationery Office.
Author : Martin Coventry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Castles
ISBN : 1899874550
The definitive and most comprehensive collection on castles, towers, and fortified houses of Scotland, with historical accounts, visitor information, and maps.
Author : Magnus Magnusson
Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Travel
ISBN : WISC:89007618176
Text and photographs trace the history of 14 Scottish castles and describe architectural features and furnishings.
Author : C. J. Tabraham
Publisher : Batsford
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015041535538
Scotland's castles are the most frequented of all its ancient monuments. Chris Tabraham describes the history and the architecture of these ancient buildings and the contribution archaeology has made to our current understanding of them.
Author : Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd,Christopher Simon Sykes
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : 9781856691062
26 houses photographed in colour and accompanied by informative text about their history.
Author : Janet Brennan-Inglis
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750958103
Scotland's Castles is a beautifully illustrated celebration and account of the renaissance of Scottish castles that has taken place since 1950. Over 100 ruined and derelict buildings – from tiny towers to rambling baronial mansions – have been restored as homes, hotels and holiday lets. These restorations have mainly been carried out by new owners without any connections to the land or the family history of the buildings, which they bought as ruins. Their struggles and triumphs, including interviews and first-person accounts, form the core of the book, set in the context of the enormous social, political and economic changes of the late twentieth century.