ISBN: 0 300 09626 7
The first volume to be published in the series covering Scotland. Lothian boasts some of
Scotland's most picturesque villages and fine Georgian towns, but its architectural history goes
back to the 12th century. The introduction of monastic orders and the establishment of the parish
churches has left examples at Dalmeny and Tyninghame. Lothian also has fine church buildings
of the 15th and 16th centuries while schisms within the Reformed religion are reflected in a
variety of lesser churches. Tower houses are reminders of war and conflict and of the power
struggles of the nobility, poignantly expressed in the ruins of Linlithgow Palace. More peaceful
and prosperous years, both before and after the Act of Union, produced large estates and a series
of fine classical mansion houses - Newhailes, Yester House, Dalkeith - while the grandiloquent
Hopetoun, Newliston and Gosford House testify to the genius of the Adams, father and sons.
Where Tantallon, Dirleton and other early castles were defensive, their successors of the 18th
and 19th century such as Dalmeny and Dalhousie are unashamedly romantic. Lothian's
achievements of the Industrial Revolution range from the simplicity of Telford's Lothian Bridge
to the dramatic and celebrated spans of the Forth Rail Bridge.
