A Passion for Castles

The Story of MacGibbon and Ross and the Castles they Surveyed

Fore. David Walker , Janet Brennan-Inglis

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For castle enthusiasts and architectural historians, the five-volume Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland (1887–1892) by David MacGibbon and Thomas Ross remains an invaluable source of information on the 700 buildings that the two architects surveyed. This illustrated study describes the personal and professional lives of MacGibbon and Ross and the making of their magnum opus, then looks at the past and present condition of the most interesting of the buildings they surveyed.

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