FIRST PERIOD 90 DUNSTAFFNAGE CASTLE FIG. 65. Dunstaffnage Castle. View on East Battlements. .been altered for guns (as have also several of the openings in the walls), and three beautiful Spanish pieces, relics of the Armada, are lying on the top. A two-pronged iron stand (Fig. 65) fixed into a large stone, for holding a beacon light, stands on the battlements near the stair-turret of the south-east building. The quaint eighteenth - century house along the north curtain is two stories high, with an outside stone stair to the upper floor, and an inside service stair of wood from the kitchen, now boarded over. In the upper floor the ceilings are coomed, and the walls and ceilings are lined with wood panelling, with mantelpieces also of wood, all in good style. The windows and door have O. G. pediments, carved with festoons, and the latter (Fig. 62) bears the date 1725 and the letters M C and D L C. About 160 yards south-west from the castle is the chapel (Fig. 66). It measures 90 feet 7 inches long by 26 feet 6 inches wide, and is divided into nave and chancel ; up, and used as a private bury ing-ground, door and steps are entirely modern, but likely enough the gable is on the old foundation. The west gable has angle shafts at the corners. The walls exist to about their full height, and are encumbered with an extra- vagant growth of ivy, which prevents the beautiful details from being seen. The nave, used as a public burying- ground, is 67 feet long by 20 feet 4 inches wide. There are indications as of a porch near the west end of the south wall. The portion of the north wall opposite is ruinous. East of this on both walls are three narrow broadly-splayed lancet windows, the daylight measuring variously from lOf to 10^ inches wide, and varying from about 6 feet to 8 feet high. The two pairs of lancets next the chancel (Fig. 67) have banded shafts, 6 feet 9| inches high by 5 inches diameter, with the ordinary Early English base and carved caps. The eastmost lancet in the south wall has a square abacus and dog-tooth ornament up the side of the end shafts, and it only has similar dog-tooth ornament round the outside splay. The jambs have bead and hollow mouldings continued round the arch. It should be added that the westmost of these windows the latter is The east gable now walled with its Fio. 00. Plan of Chapel.
