east-lothian-1924/05-166

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PENCAITLAND. -- INVENTORY OF MONUMENTS IN EAST LOTHIAN. -- [PENCAITLAND.

moulded horizontal and raking cornices en-
closing triangular pediments, which are sur-
mounted by sadly decayed finials trefoiled or
crescented. One only of the pediments is
inscribed, that of the dormer on the east wing.
It bears the date 1638 above the initials in mono-
gram I. P. M. D. for John Pringle, son of
Robert and his wife, Margaret Dickson.1 The
date is repeated on the south-east skewput of
the same wing; beneath this date are the initials
R.P. for Robert Pringle. The north-east skew-
put bears the same initials. On the north-east

[illustration inserted]
FIG. 128.-Fountainhall, Entrance (No. 137).

skewput of the main building is a worn mono-
gram which may be read R.P.V.C. R and C
being certain, and so may stand for Robert
Pringle and Violet Cant, his wife. The north-
east angle of the east wing is chamfered off
below a corbelling, under which is a shield
inscribed 1638 IVLIE 21, probably the date at
which this part was constructed. In the south-
east re-entering angle there is a circled turret
(fig. 128) now curtailed in height, borne on the
usual moulded conoidal corbelling. The upper
portion of the south wall of the west wing over-

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hangs on an exposed and moulded continuous
corbelling of two members, which returns at
the level of the upper member of the turret
corbelling. The lower member of the contin-
uous corbelling returns for but a short distance
along the west wall, as the lower portion of the

[illustration inserted]
FIG. 129.-Fountainhall (No. 137).

wall is angled. The south-west angle bears a
projecting sundial1 set about the level of the
attic floor.
The entrance doorway is at the re-entering
angle; it has, on jambs and lintel, a quirked
edge-roll of the three-quarter round section
common in early 17th
century work. The

[illustration inserted]
FIG. 130.-Fountainhall
(No. 137).

roof is of timber and
is slated.
Adjoining the
house on north-west
and east are exten-
sive walled gardens.
In the garden wall
south-east of the
house is an early
17th century gate-
way, with moulded
jambs and lintel (fig.
43). Above the moulded horizontal cornice
there is a quadrangular pediment, flanked
by pyramidal finials terminating in little
spheres and enriched on the front with