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GARVALD & BARA.]HISTORICAL MONUMENTS (SCOTLAND) COMMISSION.[GARVALD & BARA.

SUNDIAL.-On the south wall is a well-
designed dial of white freestone 1 foot 10 inches
square inscribed in relief GEORGE FA FECIT
ANNO 1633.
JOUGS.-A pair of wrought-iron jougs com-
plete with the padlock in good preservation
are attached to the west gable.
HISTORICAL NOTE.-The church of Garvald
belonged to the nunnery at Haddington.
Archaeol. Scot. i., p. 109. Reg. Mag. Sig.
(1458) No. 610.

xi. S.W. 25 July 1913.

CASTELLATED AND DOMESTIC STRUCTURE.

[marginal note]
Early xtions(!)
Cemetery at Nunraw
see Turner, Canis.
[?] of Scotland. pt. ii,
p. 230. P.S.A.S.,
vol. xl.pp. 328-42

45. Nunraw.-Nunraw stands 1/2 mile
east of Garvald village on the shoulder of a
foothill of the Lammermuirs and overlooks
the valley of the Papana Water. It is mainly
modern, but there is a mediaeval nucleus over-
laid and obscured by a mid-19th century
restoration and addition save at the north-
eastern angle, where a late 16th century tower
rises above the stable court. The portion of
the main building which lies south of this tower
is outwardly modern, but its arrangement on
plan suggests that it is contemporary with the
tower and also that the original structure was
built on a Z-plan (fig. 65) consisting of a main
block which measured over walls 60 feet 9 inches
from east to west by 29 feet 6 inches from north
to south and had an oblong tower 25 feet 6 inches
broad projecting outwardly 23 feet 2 inches
from the north-east and a second 25 feet 3
inches broad projecting 22 feet from the south-
west angle. The north-west re-entering angles
are occupied by wheel staircases within circled
towers. This plan is identical with that of
Hatton Castle, Forfarshire, which was built in
1575.
The building is four storeys in height below
a continuous parapet walk, which returns
around the structure, above which level there
is an attic storey in the roof. That the square
projecting towers should have parapet walks
is usual in the period, but that the walk
originally returned also round the main block
is unlikely. On the ground floor the main
block has a vaulted passage running long-
itudinally from the west staircase against the
south wall to a doorway in the east wall ;
from this passage access is obtained to the

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ground floor of the south tower and to three
vaulted chambers on the north ; a second
passage leads off to the north staircase, from
which the lowest floor on the north tower is
entered. This tower alone remains in an
approximately unrestored condition. The two
lowest floors are vaulted. It is built of
the local freestone rubble with dressed quoins,
while the remainder of the building is of
modern ashlar. At the three exterior angles
open rounds project, borne on an enriched but
debased corbel course, the upper portion of

[illustration inserted]
FIG. 65.-Nunraw (No. 45).

which contains irregular quadrangular panels,
while the lower member is coarsely reeded or
cabled. The corbel course below the parapet
walk consists of corbels set chequay of larger
size than usual.

PAINTED CEILING.-On the first floor in an
apartment adjoining the tower immediately on
the south there is a ceiling of oak, the joists
and boarding of which are decorated in tempera.
(fig. 66). The wood was prepared with a light
plaster surface and the colours were laid on
with a lime wash. The centreing of the joists
varies from 22 to 30 inches, and the boards are
fastened with broad-headed nails. Eleven nine-
inch joists are laid out in short panels enclosed
by coloured lines, which interlace each other at
several points and in different ways, and the
panels have a running ornament of white or
red and black or yellow alternatively. The ten
compartments of flooring thus enclosed, varying
from 12 to 16 inches in breadth, are margined
with a guilloche border of red upon yellow,
within which is a miscellaneous profusion of
coloured ornament including birds, beasts,
characteristic late 16th century bunches
of grapes, apples and pears with foliage,