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 THIRD PERIOD 444 SPYNIE CASTLE superior architecture of ecclesiastical buildings, and there are other indications in the ruins that Spynie did so. Thus in the south wall of enceinte there are the remains of arches (Fig. 384), which seem to have contained large traceried windows, said, with probability, to have been the windows of the chapel. These have been built up at a later time, and smaller, but still church-like windows substituted for them. FIG. 387. Spynie Castle. Gateway to Courtyard. As the Cathedral was rebuilt (after its destruction by the Wolf of Badenoch in 1390) during the episcopate of Bishop John Innes, he would not want for architectural assistance in the erection of his palace, and we may safely attribute the superior and unusual style of the palace to the presence of architects from a distance, who were engaged in the rebuild- ing of the Cathedral.