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GLAZING AND FURNITURE. 



Fragments of the glass and lead work of the windows have 

 been found. The pieces are small, the glass is corroded, but 

 enough remains to shew that the windows were of a variety of 

 colours, and such as would be in keeping with, and enhance the 

 effect of flie rich architecture and sculptured decorations of the 

 Church. 



It is a fortunate circumstance that a small part of the stalls of 

 this Church has been preserved. In the " Queer," attached to 

 the Parish Church of Terregles, erected in 1583 by John, Lord 

 Herries, for a place of sepulture for himself and his family, is the 

 piece of furniture referred to, long known as the " Provost's 

 Chair of Lincluden." Any one acquainted with church furniture 

 will not hesitate to pronounce this work to be part of the stalls 

 of a pre-Reformation Cliurch ; its architectonic style is in keep- 

 ing witli the Church of Lincluden ; and the common connection 

 of the Terregles family with Lincluden and with the Mortuary 

 Chapel at Terregles would account for the removal of the stalls to 

 their present jiosition in the Chapel. 



Two of the stalls are nearly complete, except that the back 

 boards and canopies are wanting ; and there are parts of a tliird 

 stall. The work is of oak. The seat boards turn up in the usual 

 way, and have the usual carved miserere, allowed by the Church 

 as a sort of rest for relief to the infirm during the long services 

 that were required to be performed in a standing posture. The 

 points of the elbows are cai'ved, and the back framing rises in a 

 series of buttresses and pinnacles, richly decorated witli carved 

 crockets and finials. Carved pieces of the canopies also remain. 



A unique circumstance came to light a few years ago respect- 

 ing these remains. Captain Maxwell had undertaken the re- 

 storation of the Mortuary Chapel, within wliich, against one of 

 the walls, they stood. The stalls being turned round, 

 on some of the remaining boards forming the back, were 

 discovered traces of paintings, two in number, in tempera. 

 The more complete one is upon two boards ; a tliird board, upon 

 which a small part of it had extended, is wanting. This painting 

 represents a female figure in a standing posture, the left arm 

 crossed upon the right one. The features of the face are obliter- 

 ated ; the face itself is oval, the hair is yellow and long, lianging 

 down upon the slioulders. On the head is a ci'own with alter- 



