22 Tran.victions. 



The heraldry on tlie walls of the Church also sufficiently attests 

 the connection with it of the Douglas family. 



The new building, although it would probably be the design of 

 its founder ultimately to extend it so as to embrace the re-build- 

 ing of the whole Church, had stopped short of completion, and a 

 part of the older erection, the remains of which have been 

 described, continued to exist until the time when the establish- 

 ment was finally dismantled. 



The remains of the Collegiate Church embrace the Chancel, 

 the South Transept or Transeptal Chapel, the South Aisle, and 

 the Sacristy ; and two vaulted chambers north of the Sacristy 

 also belonged to this period. 



This Church, like that of the Abbey which preceded it on the 

 same site, is of small extent, but it stands out unsurpassed by 

 any of its class for the boldness, richness, elegance, and purity of 

 its architecture. 



Externally the noticeable features of the building are — the far 

 projecting buttresses, rising to the height of the side walls un- 

 broken by any intake ; the large double base table, extending 

 round the bottom of the walls ; the cornice, decorated with i-ichly 

 carved foliage, on the top of the south wall of the Chancel ; the 

 well-proportioned pointed windows, enclosed in peculiar and very 

 bold mouldings, hooded, and originally divided by many mullions 

 and rich geometrical tracery, inclining to leaf and fiame forms, 

 of which little now remains. 



The buttresses are of uniform design, and placed at right angles 

 to the walls, except at the Transept, where they project diagon- 

 ally from the corners. 



The windows exhibit uniformity in some of their parts, and in 

 others much variety. The lights in all cases stand in the centre 

 of the wall, the jamb mouldings are continued on the arches, and 

 their internal and external orders are respectively alike, as are 

 also those of the mullions and tracery, except in the case of the 

 east window of the Side Chapel, where they are dissimilar. The 

 principal mouldings of the Chancel windows and of those of the 

 Aisle are similar, but whereas the mullions and tracery in the 

 Aisle have hollow chamfers only, those in the Chancel have edge 

 rolls in addition, with bases and caps to the mullions. The two 

 windows of the Side Chapel differ from all the others as regards 

 their mouldings, and also from one another. The tracery of the 

 two westuiost windows in the south wall of the Ciiancel corre- 



