368 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Heriot?s Hospital.
Heriot's Hospital.] THE GATEWAY. 369
, nished by Inigo Jones; and yet, as a whole, the
building is remarkable for its bold beauty and
symmetry.
The windows are two hundred in number, and
richly ornamented with curious devices j and nothospital
regular and uniform, and for the more easy
finishing and completing thereof, they give warrant
and order, to the present treasurer, to finish and
complete the south-west quarter of the said hospital
with a platform roof, in the same way and manner
THE CHAPEL, HERIOT'S HOSPITAL.
as the north-east and north-west quarters thereof are
covered ; and with all conveniency to take down
the pavilion turret in the north-west quarter, and
to rebuild and cover the same with a platform roof,
regularly with the other three quarters of the
fabric."
Prolix as this quotation may be, it seems,with
the other references to Wallace, Aytoun, Donaldson,
and Brown, as master masons and architects,
that any uniform design could never have been fur-
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withstanding that there are so many, no two are to
be found precisely similar.
The hospital is quadrangular, and measures externally
162 feet each way, and 94 each way in
the court, which is paved; it has on the 'north
and east sides a piazza six feet and a half broad.
Over the gateway, which is on the north side,
facing the Grassmarket, is a tower projecting from
the main line, surmounted by a small dome and
lantern, provided with a clock. The corners of
