Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . ld read The Bank okScotland, i-rom Princes Street Gardens. The Mound.) THE FREE CHURCH COLLEGE. 97 one persons ^i,ooo each, a sum which more thansufficed to purchase the site of the college—theold Guise Palace, with its adjacent closes—and toerect the edifice, while others were built atGlasgow and Aberdeen. Plans by W. H. Playfair, architect, were pre-pared and adopted, after a public competition hadbeen resorted to, and the new buildings were atonce proceeded with. The foundation stone waslaid on the 4th of June, 1846,
Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . ld read The Bank okScotland, i-rom Princes Street Gardens. The Mound.) THE FREE CHURCH COLLEGE. 97 one persons ^i,ooo each, a sum which more thansufficed to purchase the site of the college—theold Guise Palace, with its adjacent closes—and toerect the edifice, while others were built atGlasgow and Aberdeen. Plans by W. H. Playfair, architect, were pre-pared and adopted, after a public competition hadbeen resorted to, and the new buildings were atonce proceeded with. The foundation stone waslaid on the 4th of June, 1846, by Dr. Chalmers, The stairs on the south side of the quadranglelead to the Free Assembly Hall, on the exact siteof the Guise Palace. It was erected from designsby David Bryce, at a cost of ^7,000, which wascollected by ladies alone belonging to the FreeChurch throughout Scotland. The structure was four years in completion, andwas opened on the 6th of November, 1850,under thesanction of the Commission of the Free GeneralAssembly, by their moderator, Dr. N. Paterson,. LIBRARY OK THE I-RER CllUKiH U-iom a/?/,alfgy,ifh ^y G. W. llilstti and exactly one year previous to the day which saw hisremains consigned to the tomb. The ultimate costwas ;^46,5o6 8s. lod., including the price of theground, ^10,000. The buildings are in the English collegiate style,combining the common Tudor with some of the laterGothic. They form an open quadrangle (enteredby a handsome groined archway), 165 feet fromeast to west and 177 from south to north, includ-ing on the east the Free High Church. The edificehas two square towers (having each four crocketedpinnacles), 121 feet in height, buttressed at thecorners from base to summit. There is a thirdtower, 95 feet in height. The college containsseven great class-rooms, a senate hall, a studentshall, and a library, the latter adorned with astatue of Dr. Chalmers as Principal, by who delivered a sermon and also a special addressto
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