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 EARL PATRICK S PALACE 337 FOURTH PERIOD a late date most likely subsequent to that of the burning in 1570. The roof is finished with gabled crow-steps, a form more frequently met with in ecclesiastical than in baronial edifices, but by no means absent from the latter, as examples at Edinburgh and Stirling Castles, Craig Castle. FIG. 785. Bishop's House, Dornoch.' etc., show. The lower building has been modernised, but still retains a buttress and a quaint circular staircase springing from a square on the ground floor, with a very simple but uncommon kind of set-off. EARL PATRICK'S PALACE, KIRKWALL. This beautiful building, one of the finest specimens of Domestic Architecture in Scotland, is situated about 100 yards south from the Cathedral of St. Magnus, Kirkwall (the east end of which is seen in VOL. II. Y