But this amount of decoration, being so exceptional in Scottish
edifices, seems to have proved misleading. No parallel to Rosslyn has,
so far as we know, been discovered abroad, and it is unnecessary to go
so far afield in search of a model. The leading principles of the design
are really Scottish, and it will be found, on careful analysis, that
Rosslyn Church presents a rich and finished epitome, both as regards
constructive and decorative elements, of the Scottish ecclesiastical
architecture of the third or late pointed period. The plan of the east
end of Rosslyn Church so closely resembles that of the choir of Glasgow
Cathedral, that there is hardly room to doubt that the latter was the
model after which the former was designed. The disposition of the
pillars in the two buildings agrees exactly, the side aisles in both
being connected by an eastern
[Illustration: FIG. 1089.