Glenluce Abbey. 12^ 



17tJt November, HPIJ. 



Chairman — Ex-Provost Lennox, V.P. 



Lantern T>ecture : Glenluce Abbey as it was and ls. By 

 the Rev. A. Taylor Hill, Minister of Glenluce. 



The remains show that the buildings were manifold and 

 extensive. The st}le is First Pointed English Architecture. 

 The church was the largest single building. It is situated due 

 east and west: the head towards the east. 



Extreme length, 180' feet. 

 Extreme breadth, 86 feet. 

 Length of Nave, 112 feet. 

 Breadth of Xave, 54 feet 4 inches. 

 Crossing and Choir, 68 feet. 

 Breadth of same, 24 feet. 



Nave. 



This had seven bays, each measured sixteen feet from centre 

 to centre of the dividing piers. Probably the piers were plain 

 cylinders. The diagram furnished herewith shows the ground 

 plan; and the remains of the walls are shown by thickened lines. 

 What remains of the Nave walls suggests that the roof was 

 timber. These were not strong enough to support an arched 

 stone roof. At present there is a well-kept pathway up the centre 

 of the Nave. This way is maintained by the Dalrymple Hay 

 family, as it leads to their burying-ground, which occupies all 

 the Crossing and most of the Choir. The present floor level of 

 the Nave is six to ten feet above the original level. At present 

 the Nave, with exception of the walk, is filled with ivy, shrubs, 

 and some thirty great trees. The lower half of the south wall 

 still remains, varying from twelve to twenty feet in height. Of 

 the north wall there is only a few feet at the west end. Of the 

 west wall nothing is visible. 



The Nave had two doors: the main door was in the west 

 gable, and the other was at the east end of the south wall, and 

 opened into the Cloister Garth. Of the latter all the dressed 

 stonework is gone ; and the opening is filled with undressed un- 

 limed stones. 



