Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . each corner, andthree rows of windows, the upper gableted abovethe line of the eaving-slates. ;6o OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Lauriston. From each side of tliis central mass there arethree floors of corridors, affording access to thewards of the Surgical Hospital, and to the frontview appear as so many ranges of triple-windowssurmounted by a balustrade of stone. Each of thesepassages is twelve feet wide, and run from end toend of the buildings ; and there branch out towardsLauriston four blocks of wards, 12S feet long by 33
Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . each corner, andthree rows of windows, the upper gableted abovethe line of the eaving-slates. ;6o OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Lauriston. From each side of tliis central mass there arethree floors of corridors, affording access to thewards of the Surgical Hospital, and to the frontview appear as so many ranges of triple-windowssurmounted by a balustrade of stone. Each of thesepassages is twelve feet wide, and run from end toend of the buildings ; and there branch out towardsLauriston four blocks of wards, 12S feet long by 33wide. Each comes to within some 35 feet of the It consists of four pavilions lying east and west,parallel to each other, at distances of about 100 feetapart, with their eight towers facing the Meadows,repeating the architectural features of the Lauristonfront at their northern ends, all connected by acorridor, the flat roof of which becomes availableas an open gallery. Each of all these separate blocks or pavilions,besides their attics and basements, have three floors,. WATSON S {Riduied FacsimlU of R, Scotts En^iavtn; r/ the Dawing l-y Amircxu Scott Mason, a^ed 13, ;iisfud in i8ig.) pavement, presenting a front of eight Holyroodtowers, with four crowstepped gables between. Themasonry is hammer-dressed stone and dressed ashlar. On the south side of the main corridors are twoblocks that project to the south, and between themare two class-rooms, also entering from these cor-ridors, with a theatre for operations in rear of thecentral block, while immediately to the south of allthis are the old buildings of Watsons Hospital, re-modelled for administrative purposes. The Surgical Hospital forms a pile of buildingwith a frontage of 4S0 feet, combining a picturesquegroup of round towers, and corbelled tourelles, overall of which rises the lofty spire. The Medical Hospital occupies that portion oftlie ground nearest to the northern walk of theMeadows, and most
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