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earliest possessions. From the point of vantage already named, 

 the Priory Church, of which the choir was 

 Coldingham restored in 1854 for the conduct of public 

 Priory. worship, is seen to occupy a conspicuous place 



on the South side of an extensive churchyard, 

 and in close proximity to a fragment of building locally styled 

 " Eggar's Wa's," but now regarded as part of the ancient 

 refectory. The Church is a rectangular building, whose North 

 and East walls retain the blank arcade and clerestory of 

 the mediaeval structure — a mixture of the Norman and First 

 Pointed styles, with a porch and bell-cote on the South 

 side, and truncated towers at each corner to replace those 

 supposed to have existed originally. Internally it conveys an 

 idea of stateliness, the unbroken line of even the added South 

 wall contributing to this impression. So full an account of 

 its historical and architectural features has already appeared 

 in the History of the Club, that it is unnecessary at this 

 date to enter into details ; but the opportunity is taken of 

 commending the informative papers contributed by Dr. John 

 Stuart, Edinburgh, and Mr. John Ferguson, F.S.A., (Scot.), 

 Duns, which deal exhaustively with the subject.^ 



Under the genial conduct of Rev. H. M. Lamont, B.D., 

 minister of the parish, a small party, comprising those who 

 required to return early by Reston, examined the Church, and 

 had their attention drawn to the salient features of its mediseval 

 architecture. In the course of their perambulation, they did 

 honour to the memory of our late respected Secretary (whose 

 memorial window on the North wall did not escape their favour- 

 able notice), by visiting his tomb; and discovering in the simple 

 inscription on the headstone no mention of his long and 

 honourable connection with the Club, they resolved to report 

 the omission, and recommend that, with the consent of Mrs. 

 Hardy, a suitable addition, commemorative of his twenty- 

 seven years of service, should be made to it, an ex-President 

 agreeing to defray the cost of such engraving. 



The greater number of members proceeded by the "Applin 

 Brae," a name reminiscent of the site of a cross, at which 



«Ber, Nat. Club, Vol, v., pp. 207-219, and Vol. Xiii., pp. 105-117. 



