18 NOTICES OF AECHITECTURE IN BERWICKSHIRE 



is the pointed barrel vault, generally plain, sometimes ribbed, 

 but almost always carrying an outer roof of overlapping stones. 

 In churches of this class the vaults of the transepts or side 

 chapels, where such occur, instead of being run into the main 

 building, as in earlier examples, are terminated by gables 

 supported on arches in the line of the side walls. Ladykirk, 

 as was stated in my account of that church, is the only instance 

 of this peculiarity in Berwickshire ; but the same feature is 

 exemplified in other parts of the country, notably at Corstorphine, 

 Seton, and Arbuthnott. The details are in most cases debased 

 imitations of earlier forms, but in nearly every instance where 

 this reversion occurs, a careful examination of the mouldings 

 will disclose sufficient indications of the later date. 



Eecent visits to sevei-al of the churches in the county have 

 resulted in fresh discoveries, and these I now propose to give 

 some account of, adding a few historical notes, and references to 

 the works already mentioned, where necessary. 



ABBEY ST. BAT HANS. —See description in Macgibbon and 

 Ross's Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. in., pp. 410-12, 

 and the figures there given of the east window of the parish 

 church, the recumbent effigy of a prioress, and the plan of 

 the chapel. The authors think that the modern church 

 occupies the site of the original one, and that the conventual 

 buildings were included within the existing churchyard on 

 the south. The latter conjecture is, however, disposed of by 

 the statement in the New Statistical Account that the remains 

 of the priory, which were visible at the beginning of the cen- 

 tury, lay between the church and the river to the north. 



The late Mr Turnbull of Abbey St. Bathans informed me, 

 shortly before his death, that he had in his possession a 

 fragment of the painted glass of the church, and also Grose's 

 drawing of the ruins of the priory buildings. These would 

 have been figured for the Club's Proceedings, had Mr 

 Turnbull lived. 



AYTON. — A drawing of the window in the south transept 

 or chapel will be found in Eccles. Arch, of Scotland, vol. in., p. 

 543. Mr Eoss remarks: "It is evident from the nature of 

 the design and the form of the mouldings that the window is 

 of late date, probably of the end of the sixteenth century." 



