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| GEORGE HERIOT'S HOSPITAL | [continued from page 156] front is three stories in height with square towers four stories high at the angles, A handsome square tower 100 feet high, rises from the centre, surmounted by an octagonal dome and lantern. Under this tower access is obtained to the inner Court by a magnificent doorway abounding with hieroglyphical representations chiefly chiefly illustrative of the source from which the founder made his his wealth - his own indefatigable industry, the other sides of the building are also of three stories with steep sloping roofs and dormer windows to light to light the attics. They are devided in the centre by octagonal towers, which gives a beautiful effect to the whole. The interior Court has piazza on the East and North sides. The most conspicuous objects in the quadrangle are the richly ornamented and unique entrance to the Chapel with its singular corbel window on the South side and the statue of George Heriot in the picturesque dress of the age of James I, (on the north side, The great diversity of the ornaments on the architraces of the doors, and windows, no one resembling another, except those of the two central windows on the West side of the hall, cannot fail to draw the attention of any one visiting this richly ornamented edifice, Although the erection of this splendid Hospital, was Commenced in 1628 it was not completed for the reception of its destined inmates till thirty one years afterwards viz 1659. the great national troubles stopped its progress in 1639, when Oliver Cromwell, turned it into an infirmary for his sicK and wounded soldiers, In 1659 the Institution was finished at the expense of £27.000 and first opened in accordance with the Heriot will for the Maintenance, relief and bringing up of from 30 to 35 poor and fatherless children, Sons of Burghers of the City of Edinburgh [continued on page 158] |
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[Page] 157Parish of The City of Edinburgh
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This Name Book refers to Edinburgh 1852 - Sheet 35OS large scale Scottish town plans, 1847-1895 - Scale: 1:1056
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