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arch, forming a canopy above the Lase or actual tomb which 

 Avas itself surmounted by a life size recumbent effigy. The 

 base in this case was of such an elaborate character that it 

 is entitled to rank with the altar tombs of the previous cen- 

 tury. It stands about 4ft. high from the original floor level, 

 but as the Chancel floor is covered with rubbish to a depth of 

 It) or 18 inches it is not seen to proper advantage. The 

 intermediate portion between the cornice and plinth is 

 divided into nine panels by a long arcade of as many trefoli- 

 ated arches. Each panel encloses a .shield ; of these seven are 

 enriched with various emblems of the house of Douglas, two 

 remaining blank. The base, as I mentioned before, con- 

 tained the actual remains of the Princess. These were 

 enclosed by a plain slab, overlapping the front, and supported 

 on the other three sides by abroad fillet, which still remains. 

 On this slab lay the effigy. The outer mouldings of the main 

 arch are boldly crocketted and terminated by a finial, and 

 were originally stopped by rampant lions couched on the 

 outer of the small shafts on each side. I'he inner mouldings 

 run on to the impost, and the interior was originally partly 

 filled with cusped tracery. 



The tomb in general form was nearly square, and is 

 enclosed on each side by buttresses with crocketted and 

 finialed terminations, and on the top by a deeply undercut 

 hoodmould, the hollow of which is filled in with carved 

 foliage. The spandrils are filled in with panelled tracery. 

 The Sedilia and Piscina are so similar to the tomb in general 

 style and ornamentation tliat the description of the former 

 applies in a great measure to them also. Mention may be 

 made of the groined soffit of the sedilia, which is triple but 

 not graded, and of the two minute niches in the interior of 

 the Piscina. The base of the Sedilia is extremely plain, but 

 that of the Piscina is ornamented by conventional represen- 

 tations of Acorns. In the north side of the Chancel, a few 

 feet from the tomb, is a highly ornamented doorway which 

 opened into the Sacristy* or Kevestry^ a chamber about 12ft. 



* Archibald the Grim is said to have beeu buried ia this vestry. See Tran- 

 sactions of Antiquarian Society of England, 



