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 SECOND PERIOD 198 CRAIGMILLAR CASTLE tank of some kind inside the wall to receive it. Such an arrangement is very common in later castles and houses, where the supply-trough and spout are generally situated in or near the kitchen. It is an interesting and somewhat rare circumstance to find here the outer court and some of the outer walls and defences still existing, as also some of the farm-buildings and the chapel, which were situated in the outer bailey. , The approach to the castle is carried for a considerable distance close under the wall of the outer courtyard, which commanded it from the parapet, and past the north-east corner tower, which was partly used for defence and partly as a dovecot (see Figs. 153, 166). The entrance gate to the outer bailey, with a post for the guard, faced this approach. The stables and farm-buildings were no doubt to the west of this. The barn, which still exists, is of great size, and is said to have been used as the parish church during the contests between the Episcopalians and Presbyterians in the seven- teenth century. The chapel (Fig. 167) is a very simple build- ing, the few remains of carving about it indicating fifteenth-century work. It is so placed as to be accessible both from the castle and the outer bailey. When the keep began to be found too con- fined, and larger accommodation was required, it is probable that some buildings were added against the west wall of enceinte. There are evidences of the buildings here having been pretty old, and it is clear from the work traceable on the outer walls that the last alterations at this place (which belong to the seventeenth century) have superseded previous buildings, the walls of which were then heightened and altered. The greatest additions, however, which have been made to Craig- millar no doubt belong to the sixteenth century, when the castle was restored after the ravages caused by Hertford. These consist of the whole range extending along the east wall and round the south wall till it joins the keep. It was at this period that the arrangements of the plan were so completely altered as to take this castle out of the category of the keeps, and bring it into that of the castles with quadrangles. Although these additions are, as above indicated, of a much later period than the original castle, still they are, as we shall presently see, of a similar character to those of castles built in the early part of the fifteenth century, i.e. on the plan of a courtyard ; and it will be more FIG. 165. Postern in South-, East Tower.