2026 · 12 works
12 works
Castles, a viaduct and churches.
Nº 01
Twelve arches on an autumn hillside
A railway viaduct crossing a terraced slope of bracken, ochre grass and small trees. The hill is a height field laid in plates; every arch is a single moulded piece.
Nº 02
Island castle, Loch Duich, Scotland
The keep with its four cone turrets, the west range, the round bastion and the three-arch bridge to the shore, on a loch of blue and clear tiles.
Nº 03
Roslin, Midlothian, Scotland
The fifteenth-century chapel with its flying buttresses, forests of pinnacles and pointed windows, the ruined west wall of the nave that was never built, and the baptistery.
Nº 04
After Craigievar Castle, Aberdeenshire
An L-plan tower house in coral harl: rounded corners, a corbel band all round, five turrets under black cones, a crow-stepped wing and an entrance tower with a balustrade and a domed caphouse.
Nº 05
West Lothian, Scotland
A sixteenth-century tower with its later range, crow-stepped gables, three corner turrets and the arched gateway to the forecourt.
Nº 06
An imagined chapel
A small stone chapel among turning trees, with tombstones, pumpkins and fallen leaves.
Nº 07
An imagined church
A facade in five layers of relief, a tower in three stages under a dome and lantern, and a two-bay nave. Built from a small set of ornaments used again and again.
Nº 08
Garden front, Lincolnshire, England
Two octagonal towers under banded domes, a bay and a bow under shaped gables, a three-arch loggia, open-shaft chimneys and a glasshouse with pavilions and glass pyramids, over hedged beds, topiary and a fountain.
Nº 09
Edinburgh, Scotland
The curved row of painted shopfronts under the terrace, arched windows with red surrounds and flower boxes, and the sandstone tenements and gothic gables above, with round windows, gablets and pinnacles. The cobbled street falls towards the Grassmarket.
Nº 10
Dumfriesshire, Scotland
The triangular castle in its moat: the twin-drum gatehouse with its machicolations and chimney stacks, Murdoch's round tower, and the roofless ranges behind ruined walls, with turf on the broken tops.
Nº 11
Study at double scale
The doorway and rose window of the church alone: fluted columns, nested arches, statue niches and scrolls made from inverted arches.
Nº 12
Midlothian, Scotland
The symmetrical core of the house: a three-storey block, four round corner towers and two battlemented pavilions, tall sash windows under hood moulds, a pointed porch, and gravel and lawn around a fountain.
