A Passion for Castles: The Story of MacGibbon and Ross and the Castles they Surveyed

Mac Gibbon and Ross revolutionize Scotland’s castle history through their ambitious, comprehensive survey of hundreds of fortresses and domestic towers.

In the 1880s two Edinburgh architects began to survey, measure and sketch the castles of Scotland, travelling the length and breadth of the country on trains, bicycles and on foot. Together they produced the five magnificent volumes of The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland, an unrivalled work of research that surveys more tha...