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Account And Description Of The Chapel Of Roslin, &C.
issuing out of a monstrous mouth , representing the jaws of hell , and stretching out a paw to catch hold of them , and drag them along with him into that place of torment . All these figures , on both sides of this same architrave , are entire and extremely distinct . ., From this particular description of both sides of . this architrave , I . must observe once for alithat wherever an archor any side of one
, , , an architrave or any side of one , a capital of a pillar , & c . is not particularty described , there must be nothing in or upon any of these but flotver-work , folkge , or chaplets , arid no live figure at all , nor inscription . In the lower south-west corner of the third window , is the devil sitting as a pedestal of a statueand looking up to the said
wine-, biber , gluttons , & c . laughing at them , and having in his left hand a mace or large club . —The arch of the window is ornamented with cherub above cheiub at full length , nine in all , with their wings expanded , crowns upon their heads , and each having a scroll negligently waved from hand to hand ,, and beyond ; the uppermost cherub on the key-stone is cut in a different'attitude from the rest , '
having four to Ins right , and as many to his left-hand , as if they were mounting upon each side of him . Upon the capital of the third pillar are an antique head and two birds . In the fourth window two cherubs , with scrolls waving from hand to hand , & x . Upon the capital of the fourth pillar , antique heads , and a wild beast . - ¦
Upon the capital of the opposite smaller pillar , some human figures . Nigh to this small pillar is the south door , directly opposite to thenorth door . On the east side of which south door , / . e . between it and said small pillar , is a font for holy water . —This south door appears to have been the principal entry , as it is more decorated than the north door . There is an arched porch without , before 3 'ou come to the doorand at each setting , on of the archthere is a cherub with
, , a scroll waved from hand to hand , and at the top of each pilaster without , a little aside from it , there is a pretty small pillar in basso relievo . —The door is arched both without and within , and in entering you go down two steps to the floor of the chapel .-. —Above the door there is a little window , whose form is an equilateral spherical triangle , waved into different shapes within the perimeter , in which it
varies from the . like window above the north-door , and is adorned on the outside and inside of its perimeter , with a different foliage from that of the little north window . ' In the fifth and last window in the south wall , there is in the southeast corner of it a man in armour on horseback , with a spear or lance in his handrepresentingI supposeSt . George killing the dragon ;
, , , -and in the south-west corner of it a cherub with a scroll waved from hand to hand , and a human figure beside him . On the north side of the arch which joins the fifth and sixth pillar , standing in the middle area , with your back to the north-door , you see very distinctly the twelve apostles , with the ensigns ofthe several
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Account And Description Of The Chapel Of Roslin, &C.
issuing out of a monstrous mouth , representing the jaws of hell , and stretching out a paw to catch hold of them , and drag them along with him into that place of torment . All these figures , on both sides of this same architrave , are entire and extremely distinct . ., From this particular description of both sides of . this architrave , I . must observe once for alithat wherever an archor any side of one
, , , an architrave or any side of one , a capital of a pillar , & c . is not particularty described , there must be nothing in or upon any of these but flotver-work , folkge , or chaplets , arid no live figure at all , nor inscription . In the lower south-west corner of the third window , is the devil sitting as a pedestal of a statueand looking up to the said
wine-, biber , gluttons , & c . laughing at them , and having in his left hand a mace or large club . —The arch of the window is ornamented with cherub above cheiub at full length , nine in all , with their wings expanded , crowns upon their heads , and each having a scroll negligently waved from hand to hand ,, and beyond ; the uppermost cherub on the key-stone is cut in a different'attitude from the rest , '
having four to Ins right , and as many to his left-hand , as if they were mounting upon each side of him . Upon the capital of the third pillar are an antique head and two birds . In the fourth window two cherubs , with scrolls waving from hand to hand , & x . Upon the capital of the fourth pillar , antique heads , and a wild beast . - ¦
Upon the capital of the opposite smaller pillar , some human figures . Nigh to this small pillar is the south door , directly opposite to thenorth door . On the east side of which south door , / . e . between it and said small pillar , is a font for holy water . —This south door appears to have been the principal entry , as it is more decorated than the north door . There is an arched porch without , before 3 'ou come to the doorand at each setting , on of the archthere is a cherub with
, , a scroll waved from hand to hand , and at the top of each pilaster without , a little aside from it , there is a pretty small pillar in basso relievo . —The door is arched both without and within , and in entering you go down two steps to the floor of the chapel .-. —Above the door there is a little window , whose form is an equilateral spherical triangle , waved into different shapes within the perimeter , in which it
varies from the . like window above the north-door , and is adorned on the outside and inside of its perimeter , with a different foliage from that of the little north window . ' In the fifth and last window in the south wall , there is in the southeast corner of it a man in armour on horseback , with a spear or lance in his handrepresentingI supposeSt . George killing the dragon ;
, , , -and in the south-west corner of it a cherub with a scroll waved from hand to hand , and a human figure beside him . On the north side of the arch which joins the fifth and sixth pillar , standing in the middle area , with your back to the north-door , you see very distinctly the twelve apostles , with the ensigns ofthe several