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David Bryce FRSE FRIBA RSA was a Scottish architect.
David Bryce by George MacCallum 1868 Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Fettes College main building
Surgical Hospital, Edinburgh 1853
David Bryce's grave
Scottish baronial or Scots baronial is an architectural style of 19th-century Gothic Revival which revived the forms and ornaments of historical architecture of Scotland in the Late Middle Ages and th
David Bryce
…in the domestic architecture of later times". With commissions for over 230 buildings during his career, Bryce is best known for perfecting the Scottish Baronial style, with which he pioneered the development of large and loosely planned country houses, for example Craigends House in Renfrewshire. His designs…
The sheriff court in Greenock (1869) is a typical Scottish Baronial building with crow-stepped gables and corbelled corner turrets.
Scrabo Tower, a folly in Newtownards, County Down, by architects Lanyon and Lynn (1858)
Claypotts Castle consists of a rectangular central block with two round towers crowned by square garret chambers. The corners of these chambers or cap-houses are strongly corbelled out over the round form and have crow-stepped gables.
Dunrobin Castle is largely the work of Sir Charles Barry and similar to the ornate conical turrets, foundations and windows of contemporary restorations such as Josselin Castle in Brittany.