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Arcli. Under tlie Rood Loft, on either side of tlie screen, are 

 corbellings, on the west side of sculptured figures, and on tlic east 

 of very large leaf work. The Cliancel Arch is a segmental 

 pointed one, and the imposts are shafted, with floriated capitals 

 similar to that which liad belonged to the west respond of the 

 Arcade. 



Entering the Chancel the eastern window is seen to occupy 

 nearly the whole width of the wall and extend upwards to the 

 vaulting. Below the window are corbels which supported the 

 slab of the High Altar, and on its sill is a small carved image 

 bracket. In the south wall ai-e a ti*if)le Sedilia or seat for the 

 officiating priest and his attendants, and a Piscina ; and in the 

 north wall the tomb of Margaret, Countess of Douglas, all of 

 veiy beautiful design and workmanship, and in their parts bear- 

 ing considerable resemblance to one another. 



The Chancel was roofed by groined and riljlied vaulting in 

 three divisions, the vaulting shafts and parts of the ribs being 

 still upon the walls. The design has been a very beautiful one, 

 and bore considerable resemblance to that of a later church — 

 Holy Trinity, Edinburgh— of the roof of which Mr T. S. Muir 

 remarks — " A more expressive and chastely designed roof than 

 that over the Choir and Apse is seldom anywhere to be met with. 

 The finely moulded groin-ribs gradually breaking apart from the 

 clustered stems and ramifying along the edges of the various cells, 

 the heavy longitudinal rib with its bold mouldings, and the 

 numerous and variously sculptured bosses, with their jutting bud- 

 like forms and symbolic leafage, produce an extremely rich, 

 graceful, and satisfactory effect." 



Over the vaulting of the Chancel, as in the case of the side 

 Chapel, there has been an apartment to which access was got by 

 the newel stair before mentioned, and the apartment was roofed 

 by plainstone vaulting with large chamfered transverse ribs. Of 

 the upper vaulting only a little at each side above the springing 

 remains, but it was complete when Grose visited the ruins in 

 1789, and an etching by Storer in 1805 represents one of the 

 ribs as then in position. 



The Sacristy is a north one, and access to it is by a rich door- 

 way in the wall of the Chancel. There is a descent of three steps 

 to the room, and it has been roofed, in two divisions, by seg- 

 mental groined vaulting of rag work, with plain chamfered ribs, 

 springing direct from the walls without shaft or corbel. 



