SECOND PERIOD 200 CRAIGMILLAR CASTLE convenient to describe them now than later. The same remark will apply to the description of the additions made to several other castles of PIG. 167. Craigmillar Castle. Chapel from the South-West. this period. The keep still remains as a central stronghold ; but the access to it is improved by the introduction of a wide and easy spiral staircase, with an early Renaissance doorway of sixteenth-century work (Fig. 168). On the basement of the additions there are, as usual, cellars one containing a draw-well, another a bakehouse with oven, and other offices. A separate stair branches off, at the entrance door, to the kitchen and its offices on the first floor. Each floor in this department is vaulted (see Fig. 155). A cor- ridor on the first floor has a service window from the kitchen, with easy communication with the great hall. This corridor also gives access to rooms on the south side. On the second floor there is a similar cor- ridor communicating with a series of bedrooms on that floor. This wing was probably set apart for guests and strangers. We usually find an FIG. 168. Craigmillar Castle. arrangement of this kind in these Entrance Doorway to Western Wing. larffe castles The west wing, as it now stands, is seventeenth-century work, but the present buildings supersede older ones, which have been altered, but
