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
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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.
