THIRD PERIOD 492 LINLITHGOW PALACE The chapel has been beautifully decorated, as may be seen from the remains of the canopied niches and deep pointed windows along its south side (Fig. 422). The canopies are sadly decayed, and the statues gone, but the corbels on which they stood are still adorned with beautifully carved angels playing upon various musical instruments. The passage at the east end gives access from the great hall and the King's private rooms to the chapel. There was a gallery at the west end, and there is a wide opening from the upper corridor into the chapel, making the corridor a kind of gallery from which the altar might be seen. The corridors along this side form a convenient means of passing from the hall to the west side of the quadrangle without passing through the chapel. FIG. 423. Linlithgow Palace. North-West Angle of Courtyard. Mr. Joseph Robertson has ascertained that " in each of the five windows of the chapel at Linlithgow Palace was a figure or image of what the Records of 1535 call 'made work,' i.e. pieced work or mosaic. The price of this was 6s. 8d. a foot, the price of the white or common
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