Work of R. S. Lorimer 
A SCOTTISH 
ARCHITECT 
mean that, though in no 
way ignoring the require¬ 
ments of modern usage, 
the results obtained have 
been specially worked 
for through the same 
channels of thought and 
with the same arrange¬ 
ment of materials and 
design as went to produce 
the buildings in Scotland 
of the sixteenth and 
seventeenth centuries. 
“Earlshall,” then, is 
oneofthese houses, which 
being in natural decay or 
R. S. LORIMER 
O F all the Scottish 
architects now prac¬ 
ticing, Mr. R. S. Lorimer 
has concerned himself, 
more than others, with 
carrying on a logical de¬ 
velopment of that purely 
national Scottish style 
which had grown up out of 
medieval necessities and 
whose natural progress 
was retarded and to a cer¬ 
tain extent extinguished 
by the advent of extra¬ 
neous styles and methods. 
By logical development, I gate ok the courtyard “ earlshall ” 
THE GARDENS AT “ EARLSHALL ” 
FIFESHIRE, SCOTLAND 
