Life of a London physician / Edited by his daughter, Mrs. Alec Tweedie.
- Harley, George.
- Date:
- 1899
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Life of a London physician / Edited by his daughter, Mrs. Alec Tweedie. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.
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![[9] CHAPTEE II. HADDINGTON YOUTH, Amongst George Harley's dearest memories, Haddington's ' auld kirk' on the banks of the river Tyne, and men- tioned in the first chapter, plays a prominent part. ' The old church of which I am about to relate a boyish anecdote,' he says, ' was built in the eleventh century, and belonged to the Franciscan Monastery, of which Friar Adam Harley was Warden from 1522 till 1566, when it was swept away by the Eeformation. ' The church, which was dedicated to St. Mary, is a Gothic fabric of a chaste style of architecture, but possesses no excess of floral embellishment, so common in old Gothic churches. ' The nave is 210 feet long by 60 feet broad, and the transept across from north to south measures 110 feet, while the square tower in the centre rises to the height of 90 feet, and it is regarding my escapade in this tower that the gist of my tale lies. In 1878 appeared from my pen, in the Haddingtonshire Courier, a series of articles under the noin de plume of G. Virtute et Fide, on The Ecclesi- astical Buildings of Haddington, more especially on its fine abbey church—the Lucerna Laudoniae — with which certain ecclesiastical members of my family had been intimately connected. ' Only the west portion of the building is now in repair, and this is still used as the parish church.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21219710_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
