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ROSLIN CHAPEL AND CASTLE. 151
refpefitive ages when they were erefited; and thefe ftyles
difplay a gradual advancement in lightnefs and profufion of
ornament; but the chapel of Rollin combines the folidity of
the Norman with the minute decoration of the Tudor age. It
is impoflible to defignate the architecture of this building by
any given or familiar term; for the variety and eccentricity of
its parts are not defined by any of common acceptation. I afk
fome of our obftinate antiquaries, how they could apply
either the term Roman, Saxon, Norman, Gothic, Saracenic,
Englifti, or Grecian, to this building.”
The founder intended to have ereCted it into a regular
collegiate church, having a provoft, fix prebendaries, and two
chorifters, or finging boys, and he endowed it with lands and
revenues befitting; but he died when he had only completed
the nave, which is the prefent chapel, and it was ufed as the
chapel to the caftle. The hill on which he built it was called
College Hill, and the people of the neighbourhood Hill call it the
College. It (lands on the northern bank of the Elk. “ Some
additions,” fays Chalmers in his “Account of North Britain,”
“ were made to the endowment by fucceeding Barons of
Rodin. In 1523, Sir William St. Clair granted fome lands
in the vicinity of the chapel, for dwelling-houfes and gardens,
and other accommodations to the provoft and prebendaries.
In his charter, he mentions four altars in this chapel; one
dedicated to St. Matthew, another to the Virgin, a third to St.
Andrew, and a fourth to St. Peter. The commencement of
the reformation by tumult, was the fignal for violence and
fpoliation. The provoft and prebendaries of Rodin felt the
effects of this fpirit. They were defpoiled of their revenues ;
and in 1572, they were compelled to relinquifli their whole
property, which, indeed, had been withheld from them during
many revolutionary years.”
refpefitive ages when they were erefited; and thefe ftyles
difplay a gradual advancement in lightnefs and profufion of
ornament; but the chapel of Rollin combines the folidity of
the Norman with the minute decoration of the Tudor age. It
is impoflible to defignate the architecture of this building by
any given or familiar term; for the variety and eccentricity of
its parts are not defined by any of common acceptation. I afk
fome of our obftinate antiquaries, how they could apply
either the term Roman, Saxon, Norman, Gothic, Saracenic,
Englifti, or Grecian, to this building.”
The founder intended to have ereCted it into a regular
collegiate church, having a provoft, fix prebendaries, and two
chorifters, or finging boys, and he endowed it with lands and
revenues befitting; but he died when he had only completed
the nave, which is the prefent chapel, and it was ufed as the
chapel to the caftle. The hill on which he built it was called
College Hill, and the people of the neighbourhood Hill call it the
College. It (lands on the northern bank of the Elk. “ Some
additions,” fays Chalmers in his “Account of North Britain,”
“ were made to the endowment by fucceeding Barons of
Rodin. In 1523, Sir William St. Clair granted fome lands
in the vicinity of the chapel, for dwelling-houfes and gardens,
and other accommodations to the provoft and prebendaries.
In his charter, he mentions four altars in this chapel; one
dedicated to St. Matthew, another to the Virgin, a third to St.
Andrew, and a fourth to St. Peter. The commencement of
the reformation by tumult, was the fignal for violence and
fpoliation. The provoft and prebendaries of Rodin felt the
effects of this fpirit. They were defpoiled of their revenues ;
and in 1572, they were compelled to relinquifli their whole
property, which, indeed, had been withheld from them during
many revolutionary years.”