PART III. ARCHITECTURE. Ill 



pleasing varieties in the style. — [Plate II. contains two varieties 

 of this style.] 



The Turret Style* 



Is characterized by projecting turrets at most of the corners; 

 by very high roofs both on the turrets and principal masses ; by 

 attic windows, and windows also in the eaves, terminated by 

 triangular pediments. The windows in the turrets are few and 

 very small, generally only arrow holes. The ground-plan of 

 the whole is commonly in the form of an L. A square tower, 

 containing the staircase, is generally placed in the angle, car- 

 ried up nearly as high as the roof, and terminated by a rude 

 ballustrade enclosing a lead roof or bastion. This style pre- 

 vails chiefly in Scotland, as at Gogar, Coats, Saughton Hall, 

 &c. In several cases an I was added to the L, forming an open 

 square something like the quadrangular style, as at Dairy 

 Woodhouselee and Barnton. — [See Plate III.] 



A very useful style might be formed, by occasionally add- 

 ing to the tower or turret style columns ; either in the Saxon 

 form and style, or clustered ; and either placed in the angles of 

 windows, projections, or recesses, or in colonnades and porticos, 

 [See Plate IV. fig. 1.] 



* Of the picturesque effect of turrets all our novelists seem to have been fully 

 aware ; but their use or abuse should not rest solely on such representations. 



