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k The ancient North Porch, with h e Norman doorway, demolished about 1760. The room above,
entered by the narrow turnpike stair indicated in the plan, waa the place of coniinement of Sir John
Cordon of Haddo, in 1644. This, and the adjoining chapel to the east, are now entirely removed.
I A modern Doorway into Haddo’s Hold Kirk, now built up.
m Modern North Doorway to the Old Kirk.
a Entrance to the old Belfry Turret, being a passage partitioned off from St Eloi’s Chapel, nearly the
o North Transept and Aisle, used aa the City Clerk’s Chambers.
p Opening under the Belfry.
p Modern North Entrances to the High Kirk, now built up.
7 The Napier Tomb.
s Our Lady’s Niche.
t Modern South Entrance to the High Kirk, now built up,
U Entrance to the Assembly Aisle.
o, Old Kirk Style, or Stinking Style.
w Entrance to the Old Tolbooth, assaulted by the Porteous Mob in 1636, and now rebuilt at Abbotsford.
x Beth’s or Bess Wynd
y Covered Passage from the Tolbooth to Parliament Close, through the New Tolbooth or Council House.
It is not unworthy of notice here that the Town Council Records prove that the different chaplainries of St
Gilea’s Church, were held long after the Reformation had pulled down the altara and abolished their services.
In September 1620, ‘‘ James Lennox is elected chaplain of the Chapelry of the Holy Rood and Holy Crose, in
the Burgh Kirk Yard of Saint Giles.” This, no doubt, refers to the chapel founded and endowed by Walter
Chepman in 1528. Every vestige of the chapel had disappeared half a century before, and it is doubtful if even
the lower churchyard, in which it had stood, was in existence at the date of this election ; though it is probable
that the “ AWmK i~kyard”r emained in use long after the upper yard had been abandoned a1 a place of
sepulture. So late as March 4th, 1629, “John Yair is elected chaplane of St Ninean’s Altar in the College
Kirk of St Giles.”
whole site of which is now occupied with the new Belfry Turret.
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Sr C~ILES’S CHURCHYARD.-h Edgar’s map of Old Edinburgh there is shown about the middle of Forrester‘s
Wynd, on the east side, a small open court, which retained, till near the close of last century, distinct marks of
having formed the entrance to the lower Churchyard of St Giles. It was pointed out as such early in the
present century to the Rev. John Sime, by Mr Cunningham, the builder of Portobello Tower,-a fabric, wherein
the chief sculptured stones and other relics of the ancient tenements demolished to make way for the South
Bridge, have been preserved. Mr Cunningham descnxed a curious piece of sculpture, emblematic of death,
which appropriately decorated the lintel of the ancient gateway through which our forefathers were wont to be
borne to their last resting-place. It is the same sculptured lintel, we have no doubt, which is thus alluded to
in the Edinburgh Magazine for July 1800,--“ A long stone, on which wm curiously sculptured a group resembling
Hdbein’a Duncc of Death, was some months ago discovered at the head of Forrester‘s Wynd, which, in
former days was the western boundary of St Giles’s High Churchyard. This relic was much defaced, and
broken in two, by being carelessly tossed down by the workmen. It was a curious piece. Amid other
musicians who brought up the rear, was an angel playing on the Highland bagpipe,-a national conceit, which
appears also on the entablature of one of the pillars of the supremely elegant Gothic chapel at Roslin” We look
in vain now for thia sinadar specimen of early Scottish art, where it should have been preserved, in the
Museum of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
Oas Comxs.-A description is given (page 330), of the discovery of oaken coffins on the eite of the
