Fig. 1171.—The Collegiate Church of Crichton. Arch and Screen in South Transept.
immediately over the sloping water table of the roofs. This story contains, in each face, a two-light window with square lintel and central mullion. The story is surmounted by a plain parapet, supported by a corbel course, and the tower is finished with a gabled roof, having a simple belfry on the apex of the east gable.
THE COLLEGIATE CHURCH OF CORSTORPHINE, Mid-Lothian.
The village of Corstorphine is situated about three miles west of Edinburgh.
The church is intimately associated with the Forrester family. It was erected and endowed by them, and their tombs and monuments, emblazoned
Fig. 1172.—The Collegiate Church of Corstorphine. Plan.
with heraldic emblems, are conspicuous on its walls. The manor was acquired by Adam Forrester, a burgess and provost of Edinburgh, in the year 1376, and the title of Lord Forrester of Corstorphine continued in the family till the year 1763.
There was a chapel at Corstorphine as early as the year 1128, which was granted to the new Abbey of Holyrood. This structure afterwards became the parish church, and continued to be so after the erection of the collegiate church, which still exists. Of this original chapel no trace now remains. It stood on the north side of the present building, on part of the ground now occupied by the existing north transept. This transept, which was built in the present century, is not the immediate successor of the old parish church, but takes the place of an aisle which was built in 1646, the erection of which caused the removal of what remained of the old parish church.