< RICHTON CASTLE 209 SECOND PERIOD is a large bedroom. Some time ago the floor of this range of buildings was excavated and examined by Mr. Miller, C.E., Edinburgh, when he found a quantity of fragments of the stained glass with which the windows were glazed. The kitchen and offices were probably at the west end of the hall. The entrance portico of the extended buildings is unusually fine (Fig. 173), and is so placed as to communicate by means of corridors and stairs with the old keep and other apartments on the one hand, and with the hall and public rooms on the other hand. The former were probably the family apartments, and are approached by a wide circular newel stair. The guests' apartments were probably over the hall and south wing, and had two separate entrances and staircases, one in connection with the entrance portico and the other at the west end. FIG. 176. Castle Campbell. Plan of Basement of South Side. It should be observed that the staircases and apartments of this wing are joined by a corridor or passage. This is a very unusual arrangement, the houses of this period being almost invariably "single tenements" with windows on both sides. The gateway and gatehouse of Castle Campbell (Fig. 174) are interest- ing and well-preserved features. The horizontal loopholes for fire-arms show that they are of late date. CRICHTON CASTLE, MIDLOTHIAN. Crichton Castle in Midlothian is a splendid specimen of a castle which had its origin in a simple fourteenth-century keep, and became extended in after-times into a castle surrounding a courtyard. There is no record of the building of the keep, but about the middle of the fifteenth century this castle belonged to Sir William Crichtoun, who was Chancellor under James i., and afterwards guardian of James n. In 1445 Crichton was stormed and dismantled by Forrester of Corstorphine, one of the Livingston faction. In 1488 the castle and lands were granted to Patrick Hepburn, first Earl of Bothwell. James vi. bestowed them in 1576 on his favourite, Francis Stewart, fifth Earl of Bothwell.
