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 VIIITTINGHAM TOWER 301 THIRD PERIOD Entering off one of the " screens " is a small mural closet. The interior of this apartment has been renovated in the seventeenth century, and contains some good plaster and wood work of that period. The richly panelled ceiling of plaster-work (Fig. 257) is of similar design to those of Winton House, Moray House, and other seventeenth-century buildings. The door architraves, with egg and dart enrichment, are probably con- temporary with the ceiling, and are certainly much later than the tower. The staircase continues to the top, and is surmounted with a cape house. FIG. 256. Whittinghain Tower. Entrance Doorway. The battlements are interesting, and are quite entire, with a walk all round about 3 feet wide, but intersected by a wall where the staircase joins the main tower, through which wall there is a narrow passage about 2 feet high. The parapets are high, and have a moulded coping with a double bead continued all round the embrasures. There is an apart- ment in the roof entering from the parapet walk. The windows of the tower, so far as visible under a prodigious growth of ivy, are designed like those of the fifteenth and sixteenth century Tudor buildings in England, of which we have also an example in the chapel windows of Craigmillar, with a wide splay and label mouldings. Extending south-