[Illustration: FIG. 1027.--Trinity College Church. Piscina.]
Fig. 1028 shows the interior of the south aisle looking westwards. These
sketches in the north and south aisles show that the central aisle was
shut off from the side aisles by solid partitions at the time the
sketches were made.
In Figs. 1029 and 1030 are shown a great variety of the picturesque
carvings with which the corbels, caps, &c. were enriched. These
sculptures are all of a very grotesque and some of a debased character,
and point to the late style of much of the work.
In Fig. 1031 is preserved a view of part of the exterior of the apse and
of some old-fashioned structures adjoining. Although the building of
Trinity Hospital is removed, the charity still exists and adds to the
comfort of a number of old men and women.
When the church was demolished, a careful search was made to discover
the remains of the royal foundress; and a skeleton, in an
antique-shaped leaden coffin, was found in the apse, near the place
where the high altar must have stood. This was probably the remains of
the queen dowager.[54]
A very interesting memorial of Trinity College Church has been preserved
in a painting, which is believed to have been the altar-piece. It is
[Illustration: FIG. 1028.--Trinity College Church. South Aisle, looking
West.]
a Diptych, painted on both sides, and contains portraits of King James
III. and his queen, Margaret of Denmark. It was executed in 1484, and
has
[Illustration: FIG. 1029.--Trinity College Church. Carved Corbels, &c.]
been restored to this country from Hampton Court by the gracious
permission of Her Majesty, and is now exhibited in the Picture Gallery
of
[Illustration: FIG. 1030.--Trinity College Church. Corbels, Gargoyles,
&c.]
Holyrood House. Dr. Laing has endeavoured to prove its original purpose
by identifying the portraits of Edward Bonkill, the queen’s confessor,
and
[Illustration: FIG. 1031.--Trinity College Church. Hospital and Part of
Apse, from North-East.
(From a Drawing by William Douglas, 1845.)]
probably that of Mary of Gueldres herself, in the character of an angel
seated at the organ of the church, which forms the reverse of one of the
panels.[55]