The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club-- Vol1-35 (1908-1985) ; (1991)- . ich stood one on each side of theentrance doorway at the west end of Parliament Square,and that the stone with the arms of the City of Edinburghwas from the other entrance to the same building. Onmaking the accompanying sketch of the group of stones asthey stood in the garden, and showing it to some membersof the Society of Writers to the Signet, it was agreed to pur-chase them provisionally. The stones seemed, however, tobelong more especially to the Society of Advocates, and theyultimately purchased them for the sum
The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club-- Vol1-35 (1908-1985) ; (1991)- . ich stood one on each side of theentrance doorway at the west end of Parliament Square,and that the stone with the arms of the City of Edinburghwas from the other entrance to the same building. Onmaking the accompanying sketch of the group of stones asthey stood in the garden, and showing it to some membersof the Society of Writers to the Signet, it was agreed to pur-chase them provisionally. The stones seemed, however, tobelong more especially to the Society of Advocates, and theyultimately purchased them for the sum of £40. The story of the building of the Parliament House has beenoften told and need not be gone into here; it is sufficientto say that it occupies the site of the prebendal houses belong-ing to the canons of the collegiate church of St. Giles, situatedon the south side of the church. These houses were takendown in 1632, and eight years later the new building wasfinished. It wiU be observed that one of the stones formingthe pediment of a window bears the date 1636. 23X. STATUES OF JUSTICE AND MERCY 233 The Parliament House still exists, and consists of a hall 122feet long by 43 feet wide, spanned by a very quaint open-timber roof, one of the few remaining roofs of such an earlydate in Scotland. At the south end two large rooms formerlyprojected on the south side, thus forming an L plan. One ortwo turreted staircases and square turrets at each corner, withan open parapet all round, made up the conspicuous features ofthe design. The enrichments of the windows will be understoodfrom the example in the sketch just referred to. The principaldoorway was on the east front near the north end; it re-sembled somewhat the gateway of Argyles Lodging, Stirling,and the old gateway of Glasgow College; the opening wasround, arched with bold, rusticated pilasters, on each sideconnected by an entablature, on the top of which, overthe pilasters, stood the statues—Justice on the southside, an
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