Fergusson, James: A history of architecture in all countries, from the earliest times to the present day: in five volumes (Band 2) (London, 1893)

Bk. VII. Ch. IV.

CIRCULAE-EEADED ARCHWAYS.

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The west doorway in the last named church is a pleasing specimen of
the half Continental 1 manner in which that feature was usually
treated in Scotland.

It has already been hinted that the Scotch unwillingly abandoned
the circular archway, especially as a decorative feature, and that they
indeed retain it occasionally throughout the whole of the Middle Ages,
though with the details of the period. The doorway illustrated in

893. Doorway, Linlithgow.

Woodcut ]STo. 894, from St. Giles’s, Edinburgh, is a fine specimen of
this mode of treatment, and so is the next illustration, from Plus-
cardine Abbey. Similar doorways occur at Melrose and elsewhere.
For canopies of tombs and suchlike purposes, the circular arch is
almost as common as the pointed. Other examples are found at Iona,
though there the buildings are nearly as exceptional and Continental
in design as Roslyn itself—the circular pier-arch is used with the

1 The same class of tracery is found in
the Lamberti Kirche at Munster, and
generaily in Westphalia ; soine specimens

being almost absolutelv identical with
the Scotch examples.