Mars Wark

Mar’s Wark is a ruined building in Stirling fabricated 1570 to 1572 by John Erskine, Regent of Scotland and Earl of Mar, and now being taken care of by Historic Scotland. Blemish planned the working for the primary habitation of the Erskine family in Stirling, whose boss had turned out to be innate guardian of the close-by illustrious Stirling Castle where the sovereigns a of Scotland were educated. Wark is a Scots dialect word for work, and here it implies building. The house is additionally called "Blemish's Lodging". The building fronts the kirk yard of the Holy Rude Church and sits at the leader of the processional course to Stirling Castle over the town's tollbooth.

The austere front façade survives coming up short on its upper story, get to is possible to the principal floor. The cellar vaults have entryways and windows to the road and may have been planned for shops. The facade is about symmetrical around a gatehouse frontispiece with two polygonal towers. Liberal cut stone design depends on European printsources or enriching expressions with regal and Erskine heraldry, and wry engravings. A theme of the letter "A" with the lord's coronet focuses to a iation adaptation of the family name, as "Areskine," or perhaps the underlying of Mar's lady, Annabella Murray. Customarily it has been asserted that the carvings incorporate stones reused from Cambuskenneth Abbey.