Black's picturesque tourist of Scotland . DOORWAY OF KOSLIN CHAPEL. dells, abounding with all the romantic varieties of cliff, copse-wood, and waterfall. Its Gothic Chapel is an exquisitelydecorated specimen of ecclesiastical architecture, foimded in144G by William St. Clair, Earl of Orkney, and Lord of Roslin. 79 At the Revolution of 1688, part of it was defaced by a mob fromEdinburgh, but it was repaired in the following century byGeneral St. Clair ; and a restoration of its more dilapidated. INTEEIOE OF BOSLIN CHAPEL. parts has recently been made by the present Earl. Thisbuilding, says Mr.
Black's picturesque tourist of Scotland . DOORWAY OF KOSLIN CHAPEL. dells, abounding with all the romantic varieties of cliff, copse-wood, and waterfall. Its Gothic Chapel is an exquisitelydecorated specimen of ecclesiastical architecture, foimded in144G by William St. Clair, Earl of Orkney, and Lord of Roslin. 79 At the Revolution of 1688, part of it was defaced by a mob fromEdinburgh, but it was repaired in the following century byGeneral St. Clair ; and a restoration of its more dilapidated. INTEEIOE OF BOSLIN CHAPEL. parts has recently been made by the present Earl. Thisbuilding, says Mr. Britton, may be pronounced unique, andI am confident it will be found curious, elaborate, and singularlyinteresting. The Chapel of Kings College, St. George, andHenry VII., are all conformable to the styles of the respectiveages when they were erected ; and these styles display a gradualadvancement in lightness and profusion of ornament ; but theChapel of Roslin combines the solidity of the Norman withthe minute decorations of the latest species of the Tudor is impossible to designate the architecture of this buildingby any given or familiar term ; for the variety and eccentricityof its parts arc not to be defined by any words of common 80 EDINBURGH—ENVIRONS. acceptation. The nave is bold and lofty, enclosed, as usual,by side aisles, the pillars and arches of which display a profusionof ornament, executed in the most beautiful manner. The Prentices Pillar, in particular, with i
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