sidal east end. It is divided into six
bays by projecting buttresses, and has a large window filled with
mullions and tracery in each bay on the north side, except the second
one from the west, which contains a doorway. Similar large windows are
continued in the apse, and there is also one in the east bay of the
south side. Over the west doorway there is a large west window of four
lights, with solid built mullions and loop tracery enclosed within a
round arch.[236] The tower at the south-west corner has massive corner
buttresses. It is finished with one of the few crown steeples remaining
in Scotland, forming,

"with that of St. Giles, Edinburgh, and the Tolbooth, Glasgow, the
only three surviving of those which we could at one time boast. The
general style of the structure is very similar to that of St. Giles,
but in this case there are only four arches thrown from the angles
of the tower to the central lantern, while in the case of St. Giles
there are eight, which produce a fuller and richer effect.... The
part blown down (by a violent storm in 1633) was probably only the
lantern on the top of the four arches, the details of this part
having a decidedly Renaissance character, and being different from
the other parts of the tower. Doubtless the arches themselves would
suffer in the crash, and would require repairing and rebuilding in
part, which was evidently done, as the date 1634 is carved on the
soffit of the crossing. This difference of detail is interesting as
showing how persistently these old designers wrought in the style of
their time. Although it is evident that the present lantern is not
quite the same as the original one, it must be admitted to be an
extremely happy and picturesque composition."[237]

The chapel suffered both externally and internally in the course of the
centuries, but, thanks to the enlightened liberality of Aberdeen
citizens and alumni, it has been recently restored under the direction
of Dr. Rowand Anderson. In 1823 the choir end was fitted up for worship
on the Sundays, and the nave was occupied by the library, which was not
removed and located in a building of its own until 1873. The choir
screen was then shifted westward from its original position, where its
west front formerly bisected the chapel.

"In the ideas of Bishop Elphinstone," said the late Principal Sir
William Geddes, "and his age, the choir-sc