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Fig. 4. 



11^ feet wide internally, and a wider nave, 30A^ feet long by 17 

 feet wide. Little of it is now left save the west gable, the 

 north wall of the chancel, and portions of the north and south 

 walls of the nave. When Mr Muir first visited it about 1 845, 

 the remains were much more entire, and his description of its 

 condition at that time is worth quoting. 



" The nave," he says, "is s-rievonsly reduced, but has still the remains 

 of a south-east window, and indications of a north-west doorway and 

 vaulted roof. In the east end of the south wall and close to the ground 

 is a plain squai'e-edged segmental-headed recess, 5 feet 9 inches wide and 

 9 inches deep ; and immediately east of it is another of bisected form 

 with its crown abutting on the Avail of the chancel-arch. The west 

 wall with its gable is nearly perfect, though manifestly of later date. It 

 has a plain triangular-lieaded buttress of three unequal stages placed 

 diagonally on each corner; in all other respects it is simply a mass of 

 dead wall, in part, most likely, composed of wrecked portions of the 

 ancient fabric, as the stones are nearly similar in size and shape to those 

 in the building at large, and some of them in the inner plane are hatched 

 with the chevron moulding, and indubitably are parts of some of the 

 windows or doorway arches. 



" The separation of the chancel is very distinctly marked both inter- 

 nally and on the outside, but the whole compartment is very nearly in as 



