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piscina, with pointed arch and label, still remain. The best 

 features, however, are two tombs, both about the commence- 

 ment of the fifteenth century, placed one on each side of the 

 chancel, and deeply recessed under a depressed ogival arch. 

 One tomb contains the effigy of a knight in the armour of 

 the period, said to be of the royal family, from the crests 

 on the shields. It is placed under the arch mentioned before, 

 crocketed, and with fiuial composed of a shield supported by 

 two animals. Below the shelf on which the effigy lies, the 

 space is panelled with quatrefoils, and in the centre a shield, 

 with two angels as supporters. The tomb opposite is that 

 of a lady and child, and seems slightly later in date; the 

 arch is more depressed, and the crockets are greatly defaced. 

 It is panelled beneath the effigy with eight figures in com- 

 partments, one in each, and nearly all female. Both tombs 

 are much injured from the effects of time and violence, 

 having been exposed for nearly two centuries to the 

 elements. 



Chapels of about the same date as Rothesay existed for- 

 merly at St Bride's, on Chapel Hill, only lately destroyed, 

 and at Kilmichael, where some foundations remain. On 

 Inchmarnock a chapel of earlier date stood till lately, but 

 it has also been destroyed. 



Military Remains. 



148. The castles, of which there are any remains, are Rothe- 

 say, Kames, Wester Kames, Kilmorie, and Kelspoke. None 

 of these are extensive, except Rothesay, which, owing to the 

 fact of its being a royal castle, was always of great import- 

 ance. Part of it was probably erected by Magnus, king of 

 Norway, in 1098, and large additions were made at different 

 periods subsequently. The greater part of the present build- 

 ings are of late date, having the characteristic features of the 

 sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. 



The plan comprises the usual courtyard, with four large 



