HOSX.11" CAST JL.1E.
lAfter crofiing the river, and clambering up a fteep hill, difcover,
Jithe fomrjiit, a work of art, not lefs admirable than thofe of na-
Le which we had fo lately quitted, I mean, the chapel of Rojlyn,
¡¡¡L * or the hill in the'glen; ¿curious piece of Gothic ar-
iitefture, founded, .in r’446, by William St. Clare, prince of
|b(v, for a provoft, fix prebendaries, and two finging-boys.
theputiide is ornamented with a multitude of pinnacles, and variety
of ludicrous fculpture. The infide is fixty-nine feet long, the
Ireadth thirty-four, fupported by two rows of cluftered pillars,
Itween ieven and eight feet high, with an ifle on each fide. The
lies are o'btufely Gothic. Thefe arches are continued acrofs
jefde-ifles, but the center of the church is one continued arch,
ptgandy divided into compartments, and finely fculptured. The
ipitals of the pillars are enriched with foliage, and variety of fi-
jgures; and amidft a heavenly concert, appears a cherubin blow-
pigKhe ancient highland bagpipe. In fhort, in all parts is a pro-
jfufion fo exquifite, as feem even to have afFe&ed with refpeft the
trbarifm of Knox’s manual reformers, fo as to induce them to fpare
[this beautiful and venerable pile.
I In a deep den far beneath, amidft wooded eminencies, are the
lins of the cattle,- fixed on a penirifulated rock, accefiible by a
¡bridge of ftupendous height. This had been the feat of the great
pane of Sinclair. Of this houle was Oliver^ favourite of James V .
M the innocent caufe of the lofs of the battle of Solway Mofs, by
the hatred of the nobility fo his preferred command. He lived in
petty to give a fine leffon of the uncertainty of profperity to
E p minute account o f this chapel, its carvings, Sec. are in a little bo o k, printed
ijMr, William Auld, 1774. 1 ,
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