Trimontium
and
Inchtuthil
.
Scotland is known for its "dramatically placed castles, fused onto
defensive ridges and rocky islands".
Many of these date from Scotland in the
Middle Ages. In contrast to England, which embarked on Elizabethan houses,
Scotland saw the building of castles and fortified houses continue well into
the 17th century, and many were constructed in a building-boom following
the Scottish Reformation.
The most distinctive Scottish fortification at this
time was the tower house.
The grandest medieval Scottish castles are
composed of a series of courtyards, with a keep at their centre, but the lone
keep-towers were more common, particularly amongst Scottish feudal barons.
Some of Scotland's most famous medieval fortifications include Castle
Stalker and Stirling
Castle.
More
recent, Jacobean
era castles
includeEdinburgh Castle and Craigievar Castle. The arrival of the cannon
made high-walled castles defensively impractical and obsolete,
but the
fortification genre evolved into a style in its own right; Scots Baronial Style
architecture has an emphasis on turrets and strong vertical lines drawn from
tower houses, and constitutes one of Scotland's "most distinctive contributions
to British architecture".
The new political stability, made possible by the Act of Union,
allowed
for renewed prosperity in Scotland, which led to a spate of new building, both
public and private, during the 18th century. Scotland produced "the most
important
British
architects
of
this
age": Colen
Campbell, James
Gibbs and Robert Adam were Scots interpreting the first phase of Classical
forms of ancient Greece and Rome inPalladian architecture.
Edinburgh's New
Town was the focus of this classical building boom, resulting in the city being
nicknamed "The Athens of the North" on account both of its intellectual
output from the Scottish Enlightenment and the city's neo-classical
architecture.
Together with Edinburgh's Old Town, it constitutes one of the
United Kingdom'sWorld Heritage Sites.
Christian architecture in Scotland has a distinct style; The Royal
Institute of British Architects have stated that "Scottish churches are
peculiarly plain, low and often quite humble buildings".
The Scottish
Reformation revolutionised church architecture in Scotland, because the
Scottish Calvinists rejected ornamental places of worship and few churches
escaped their attention.
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This tradition of geometric purity became
prominent in Scottish architecture thereafter, but never became popular in
England.
Similarly, Scotland has produced some of the most idiosyncratic of
architects
such
as James, John and Robert
Adam, Alexander
Thomson and Charles Rennie Mackintosh, which all relate to popular trends
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in Scottish architecture; all however created Scottish stylistic interpretations
and often deliberately injecting traditional Scottish forms into their work.
The
Adam brothers were leaders of the first phase of the classical revival in
the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Wales
Cromlechs and other prehistoric architecture exits in Wales. Examples
include Bryn Celli Ddu a neolithic site on the Isle of Anglesey, and Parc Cwm
long cairn on the Gower Peninsula.
As stated by Sir Simon Jenkins, "Wales has a very long and porous
border with England", which had a major influence upon the architecture of
Wales.
Many Welsh landmark buildings were designed and built by
Englishmen, such as the Romanesque-revival Penrhyn Castle near Bangor, a
design by Thomas Hopper that blended Norman, Regency and early-Victorian
architecture for an English MP who had inherited a vast Welsh estate.
However...
Contemporary architecture has appeared in Wales from Cardiff
Bay to Caernarfon, and has a tradition of mixing traditional Welsh materials
in to modern construction techniques.
The first known dwelling in Northern Ireland are found at the Mount
Sandel Mesolithic site in County Londonderry and date to 7000 BC.
Counties Fermanagh and Tyrone are
especially
rich
in Stone
Age archaeology. Early Christian art and architecture is found throughout
Northern Ireland, as well as monastic sites, gravestones, abbeys, round towers
and Celtic crosses.
Northern Ireland has some of the largest and finest castles in Ireland,
the earliest of which date back to the Norman invasion of Ireland. Examples
of Norman architecture in Northern Ireland include Carrickfergus Castle.
Other
medieval
castles
include Greencastle, Jordan's
Castle, Dunluce
Castle, Dundrum and Harry Avery's Castle. Enniskillen Castle dates back
to early modern Ireland.
Fortified homes andbawns continued to be built well
into the 17th century, a result of the Plantation of Ulster; examples
include Benburb Castle, Castle Caulfield, Monea Castle, and Castle Balfour.
Much of the architecture of Derry dates from the Plantation of Ulster,
including its defensive walls.
St. Columb's Cathedral....
Northern Ireland in the 18th and 19th centuries produced two varieties of
architecture, constructed along the divide of societal privilege; "sumptuous"
manor houses of the landed gentry include Castle Ward and Hillsborough
Castle; for many however, domestic life was restricted to "humble cottages".
The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty and
the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum maintain and conserve farm and
village buildings of historical interest, including many of the ancestral homes
of the 17-plusPresidents of the United States who have Ulster ancestry.
The
city
of Armagh has Georgian
architecture by
way
of
the Armagh
Observatory and the city's Georgian quarter; the Catholic St Patrick's
Cathedral and Anglican St Patrick's Cathedral are two landmarks in Armagh.
During the Victorian era, Belfast flaunted its economic prowess with
"splendid" Victorian architecture, among them Belfast City Hall, Queen's
University Belfast, Belfast Castle, the Belfast Botanic Gardens, Albert
Memorial Clock, and the ornate Crown Liquor Saloon.
Early 20th century
landmarks include a number of schools built for Belfast Corporation in the
1930s by R S Wilshere.
Notables include the severe, sturdy, 1936 brick built
Belfast School of Music on Donegall Pass and the Whitla Hall at Queen’s
University Belfast, designed by John McGeagh.
Belfast has examples of art
deco architecture such a such as the Bank of Ireland and Sinclair’s department
store on Royal Avenue and the Floral Hall at Bellevue.
Many of Belfast's
oldest buildings are found in the Cathedral Quarter. Prominent Northern Irish
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architects include R S Wilshere and McGeogh, cinema architect James
McBride Neil, and Dennis O’D Hanna, part of the "Ulster Unit" group of self-
consciously modern artists and craftspeople, promoted by poet and
curator John Hewitt.
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