Report of Meetings for 1880, by James Hardy. 277 



The priory is built of red- sandstone, wbieh. gives it a sombre 

 look. It stands on a flat by the side of the Irtbing, with some 

 broad venerable sycamores dispersed around. The buildings are 

 partly Norman, but mostly early English, of an early and mas- 

 sive design. There is a fine Norman arch at the entry, and an 

 outer arched gateway of spacious dimensions in a similar style. 

 The tower, transepts, and chancel are roofless, but are in good 

 keeping; the nave has been restored and is occupied as the 

 parish church. The clerestory is in its original fine condition. 

 The church contains monuments to the De Vauses, the Dacres, 

 the seventh earl of Carlisle who wrote the book entitled " Diary 

 in Turkish and Greek Waters," and also to three subsequent 

 earls. A stone inserted into one of the walls commemorates a 

 distinguished native physician, Thomas Addison, M.D., Presi- 

 dent of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of England, and of Guy's 

 Hospital — date 1860. He was the son of Jonah and Mary Addi- 

 son of St. Mary's Holm. From a brass on the wall the following 

 was copied : — 



" Sir Roland de Vaux that sometyme was ye Lord of 

 Tryermayne. 

 Is dead, his body clad in lead, and ligs law under 



this stayne. man. 



Even as we, even so was he, on earth a levand 

 Even as he, even so moun we, for all ye craft we can." 



The date of this Sir Eoland is 1445. 



"The priory, church, and monastic buildings," says Dr Bruce, 

 " are almost entirely composed of Eoman stones. They may 

 have been procured from the Wall ; but the mind can scarcely 

 divest itself of the idea that there has been a station here."'^ It 

 was remarked by the present visitors that the numbers of mason 

 marks on the building were unprecedented. In the cellar or 

 vault were preserved a number of Eoman altars ; one which came 

 from Birdoswald reads thus: "To the holy god Silvanus, the 

 hunters of Banna (venatores Bannse) have consecrated this." 

 Another stone from the same place represents Jupiter and Her- 

 cules ; and another altar is dedicated to the god Cocidius, by the 

 soldiers of the 20th legion in discharge of a vow. The emblem 

 of the 20th legion — a boar — appears at the foot of it. Among 

 the Eoman stones lies a broken obelisk with dog-tooth ornamen- 

 tation, and an unintelligable assortment of letters, with the 

 * WaUet-Book of the Roman Wall, pp. 189-190. 



