The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland . TRINITY COLLEGE CHURCH, EDINBURGH. This fragment of the ecclesiastical architecture of the fifteenth century, stands on the lowestlevel of the deep glen which separates the old from the new Town of Edinburgh. Previously tothe erection of the latter portion of the city, it must have stood at the verge of the north-eastern suburb, the dense and thickly peopled masses of houses in the High Street, rising over iton the one side, the rocky solitudes of the Calton Hill approaching it on the other. It is now onthe very edge of the North Britis
The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland . TRINITY COLLEGE CHURCH, EDINBURGH. This fragment of the ecclesiastical architecture of the fifteenth century, stands on the lowestlevel of the deep glen which separates the old from the new Town of Edinburgh. Previously tothe erection of the latter portion of the city, it must have stood at the verge of the north-eastern suburb, the dense and thickly peopled masses of houses in the High Street, rising over iton the one side, the rocky solitudes of the Calton Hill approaching it on the other. It is now onthe very edge of the North British Railway, and so near its commencement as to be almost incontact with the edifices connected with the terminus. It is thus with some surprise that thetraveller, just as he emerges from the temporary looking sheds, and fresh timber and plaister workof the railway offices, finds himself hurried along a dusky and mouldering collection of buttresses,pinnacles, niches, and Gothic windows, as striking a contrast to the scene of fresh bustle and newlife which
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