THIRD PERIOD 554 TULLYALLAN CASTLE ing on a row of central pillars. The smaller of these apartments (25 feet 6 inches by 22 feet) had a great fireplace (Fig. 472), with moulded jambs and large projecting hood. Details of these mouldings are engraved (Fig. 470), showing in several instances a character so decided Early English as at first sight to lead one to imagine that the building belonged to the thirteenth century. But when the other mouldings of the vault- CROUNO PLAN FIG. 471. Tullyallan Castle. Hans. ing are examined, and when the other features of the castle are com- pared with similar buildings in Scotland, it becomes clear that Tullyallan must be classed with Morton and Rait Castles as belonging to the fifteenth century. The moulded sconces for lights at each side of the chimney are rare features in Scotland, though not uncommon in France
