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tower and walls of the west gable of the church was concealed 

 by rough plaster when I examined the building; but our 

 member, the Eev. J. Hunter, minister of the parish, informed 

 me, not long ago, that, when some of the pointing was removed 

 recently, there were apparent indications that the gable had 

 been broken into for the insertion of the tower. Such features 

 as the latter possesses, as may be seen from Mr Ross's sketch, 

 do not present anything distinctly mediaeval ; and however 

 willing, and even desirous, from an antiquarian point of view, 

 to see its superior age established, I as yet see no reason to 

 modify the opinion I formerly expressed on the subject. 



St. Helen's, Aldcambus. — See Eccles. Arch, of Scotland, vol. 

 I., pp. 323-25, and the views and plan of the church there 

 given. Following Mr Muir, I seem to have understated the 

 width of the nave by about a foot. 



COLDINGrHAM.— The excavations carried out in 1895 to the 

 south of Edgar's Walls, exposed part of the foundations of the 

 south wall of the apartment, which is generally believed to have 

 been the refectory, but which some think was the guest hall of 

 the priory. Their outlines showed that the architecture of this 

 wall had been similar in character to that of the opposite wall on 

 the interior, and that there was a series of flat buttresses on 

 the exterior. The apartment has been 28 feet in width, and has 

 been vaulted. Portions of the groiu ribs have been found. 

 They are of simple rectangular form, broadly chamfered below. 

 The length of the building has not been determined, but further 

 excavations are to be undertaken, which may throw light on 

 that and other points. 



More recently, at the instance of Colonel Milne-Home, Mr 

 E,oss and I made a careful examination of the wall bounding 

 the church precincts on the south-east, in which are incorporated 

 portions of the original buildings. We found traces of a 

 doorway leading into the enclosure from the east, which still 

 shows the remains of the bar slit. A moulded corbel is 

 visible in what was probably the north-east angle of the 

 cloisters ; and there is every reason to believe that excavation 

 at this part would reveal the foundations of the large arches 

 figured by Grose and Cardonnel, and perhaps, of some of the 

 contiguous domestic buildings. The so-called "oven" near 



