130 Glenluce Abbey. 



Crossing and Choir. 



These together measure sixty-eight feet by twenty-four feet, 

 inside measurement. Most of the south wall of thie' Choir still 

 remains. It measures twenty-four feet in length by about thirty 

 feet in height. Only a fragment of the north wall remains. But 

 in this fragment there is a Pesina in an almost perfect state. 

 This Pesina faces north into one of the Chapels. It is an interest- 

 ing and important relic. It is twenty-five inches wide, with 

 trefoil arched head, and chamfered round the edge. 



About two-thirds of the Crossing and Choir is used by the 

 Dalrymple Hay family as a burying-ground. The family do not 

 have proprietory right; but only the right or privilege to bury. 



The Crossing and Choir are not two sections, but three. First 

 there is the open Crossing, twenty-four feet square, which had a 

 groined stone roof. East of this there is the Choir proper, of the 

 same size as the Crossing, but walled on the north and south sides 

 (of which only the south wall and a fragment of the north wall 

 still remain). And still east of this there is a twenty feet section, 

 enclosed on the north and south by walls, two windows, and by a 

 great window on the east. Of the walls only the foundations 

 remain. And of the windows there remains only part of the 

 jamb of that to the south. 



Transepts. 



There are (or were) two Transepts : one to the north and one 

 to the south of the Crossing. These measure thirty-two feet 

 across by twenty-five feet from west to east. Of the north tran- 

 sept the east and north walls are gone ; and a modern wall protects 

 the Gordon Tomb and the Pesina situated in this transept. 

 When discovered some 15 years ago the Gordon Tomb was much 

 broken. The covering slab was carefully put together, and 

 restored to its place by Mr Macgregor Chalmers, Architect. The 

 date on the slab is 26th April, 1548. Most parts of the south 

 transept still rem.ain. The roof and part of the east wall are 

 gone. The south gable rises about seventy feet. Until twenty- 

 five years ago a tower stood at the top of this gable. This tower 

 was reached by a spiral stair, which can still be traced. This 

 stair also communicated with the dormitories over the Sacristy 

 and Scriptorium southward, and to dormitories built over the 

 south transept. The transepts were roofed with carved stones, 



