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Interior, view of ceiling looking North.

SC 488252

Description Interior, view of ceiling looking North.

Catalogue Number SC 488252

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of B 38806

Scope and Content Hammerbeam roof of Parliament Hall, Parliament House, Parliament Square, Edinburgh Parliament Hall, built by Sir James Murray in 1639, was the meeting place of the Scottish Parliament and the Outer House of the Court of Session. At present it is a meeting place for lawyers and those they represent. During recent restoration of the roof, scraps of a book by Thomas Sanchez, a Spanish Jesuit, who wrote on Canon Law in the 17th century, were found to have been used to wedge one of the oak pendants in position when the roof was constructed. The Scots Parliament appears in the records in the later 13th century. It met as a single body in one chamber: no distinction was made among the 'Three Estates', the clergy, nobility and burgesses which comprised the Parliament. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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