The ecclesiastical architecture of Scotland from the earliest Christian times to the seventeenth century; vol. 3/3MacGibbon, David
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The ecclesiastical architecture of Scotland from the earliest Christian times to the seventeenth century; vol. 3/3
MacGibbon, David
Church architecture -- Scotland
The tracery in the large windows is well preserved, and is of a kind
usual in late work in Scotland, having curved bars without cusping
(Figs. 1200 and 1206). The round-headed doorway to the choir is
introduced in the central bay under the window, the lower part of which
is stepped up to allow of its introduction.
KING’S COLLEGE CHAPEL, ABERDEEN.
The west end of this fine chapel, with its extremely picturesque tower
(Fig. 1207), fronts the main street of Old Aberdeen, and forms the
north-west corner of the college quadrangle.
The chapel (Fig. 1208) is a long narrow building, with a three-sided
apsidal east end, measuring inside the walls about 122 feet 6 inches in
length by about 28 feet in width. It is divided into six bays by
projecting buttresses, and has a large window filled with mullions and
tracery in each bay on the north side, except the second one from the
[Illustration: FIG. 1207.--King’s College Chapel. West End and Tower.]
west, which contains a doorway. Similar large windows are continued
round the apse (but the centre one is built up), and there is also one
in the east bay of the south side. Over the west doorway there is a
large west window (see Fig. 1207) of four lights, with solid built
mullions and loop tracery enclosed within a round arch. All the other
large windows just referred to have pointed arches (except the second
from the east end on the north side), the tracery in those of the apse
and in each adjoining window being modern. The other four north windows
have, like the large west window, a solid built central mullion going
right up to the apex of the arch, and having each half filled with the
usual loop tracery. This mode of division of the tracery of a window by
a large central built mullion into two distinct portions, each filled
with its own tracery, is not uncommon in Scotland, as, for instance, at
Seton College, where, however, the mullion divides into two arches and
forms two pointed divisions in the arch-head. Besides the north doorway
[Illustration: FIG. 1208.--King’s College Chapel. Plan.]
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