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architectural antiquities.
triangular windows : flat arch, and segment joined, in a door in the vault: several
arches of various forms in the windows, niches, and canopies ; also in the battlements.
The west end is terminated by a blank wall, closing the centre and side ailes,
and rising above the roof. This wall contained three door-ways, opening to the
middle and lateral ailes. Each door-way has a squared top or horizontal lintel
resting on imposts of sculptured capitals. Three ornamented piscinas and eight
brackets are inserted in the wall, parallel with the doors. Over the centre door is
a window walled up.
The lords of Roslyn were formerly hereditary grand masters of the freemasons
of Scotland, and as such were considered the patrons and protectors of that class of
men. In a petition from them to " Sir Wm. St. Clair," they call themselves
"deacons, masters, hammermen, and freemen of the masons."
END OF THE ACCOUNT OF ROSLYN-CH APEL.
Cin: Cijapel of §?t Jltdjolas,
king's lynn, norfolk.
by the rev. e. edwards, f. s. a.
This is a chapel of ease to the parish of St. Margaret, in the borough of King's-
Lynn, and is supposed to be the largest parochial chapel in the kingdom. It
measures 194 feet in length from east to west, within the walls, and about 74 feet
in width; having no transept or distinct choir. The interior consists of a lofty
nave, with two lateral ailes. The latter are divided from the former by eleven
arches on the north side, and ten on the south :—the space of one arch at the
S. W. angle being occupied by the base of the tower. The place of another
arch, at the east end, is taken up by a vestry on the south side, and a similar
apartment, over the vault of Sir Benjamin Keene, towards the north, leaving a
kind of recess between, of the whole width of the nave, for the communion table.
Interior Architecture.—The distinguishing characters of this structure, as
seen within, are lightness, simplicity, and perfect uniformity of style: the tower
architectural antiquities.
triangular windows : flat arch, and segment joined, in a door in the vault: several
arches of various forms in the windows, niches, and canopies ; also in the battlements.
The west end is terminated by a blank wall, closing the centre and side ailes,
and rising above the roof. This wall contained three door-ways, opening to the
middle and lateral ailes. Each door-way has a squared top or horizontal lintel
resting on imposts of sculptured capitals. Three ornamented piscinas and eight
brackets are inserted in the wall, parallel with the doors. Over the centre door is
a window walled up.
The lords of Roslyn were formerly hereditary grand masters of the freemasons
of Scotland, and as such were considered the patrons and protectors of that class of
men. In a petition from them to " Sir Wm. St. Clair," they call themselves
"deacons, masters, hammermen, and freemen of the masons."
END OF THE ACCOUNT OF ROSLYN-CH APEL.
Cin: Cijapel of §?t Jltdjolas,
king's lynn, norfolk.
by the rev. e. edwards, f. s. a.
This is a chapel of ease to the parish of St. Margaret, in the borough of King's-
Lynn, and is supposed to be the largest parochial chapel in the kingdom. It
measures 194 feet in length from east to west, within the walls, and about 74 feet
in width; having no transept or distinct choir. The interior consists of a lofty
nave, with two lateral ailes. The latter are divided from the former by eleven
arches on the north side, and ten on the south :—the space of one arch at the
S. W. angle being occupied by the base of the tower. The place of another
arch, at the east end, is taken up by a vestry on the south side, and a similar
apartment, over the vault of Sir Benjamin Keene, towards the north, leaving a
kind of recess between, of the whole width of the nave, for the communion table.
Interior Architecture.—The distinguishing characters of this structure, as
seen within, are lightness, simplicity, and perfect uniformity of style: the tower