108 The Pre- Reformation Churches of Berwickshire. 



demolished portions of the church were exposed. These 

 showed that it had consisted of a nave with north and south 

 aisles, north and south transepts with eastern aisles or chapels, 

 and an aisleless choir. The nave and choir were each 90 

 feet in length by about 25 feet in width internally. A plan 

 of the church is given in Mr Hunter's work, and in Yol. iii. of 

 the Club's Proceedings. Of the nave and N. transept no traces 

 are now visible, but the lower part of the W. and S. walls of the 

 S. transept remains ; and the N. and E. walls of the choir, 

 measuring externally 95 feet and 35 feet respectively, are, as 

 already stated, entire. The north and east elevations are figured, 

 in whole or in detail, in the Histories of Mr Carr and Mr 

 Hunter, and in Billings' Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities 

 of Scotland, and ar.e described with great minuteness and 

 accuracy in Mr Muir's 'Descriptive Notices of Some, of the 

 Parochial and Collegiate Churches of Scotland.' His descrip- 

 tion is as follows : — 



" The style of the architeoture is partly Norman and partly First- 

 Pointed ; neither, however, quite pure, but each slightly dashed, as it 

 were, with a tinge of the other. Externally, the north elevation exhibits 

 some single-light lancet windows, divided from one another by broad 

 shallow buttresses projecting only a few inches from the wall. The head 

 mouldings of the windows are composed of half and three-quarter rounds 

 deeply under-cut, rising from banded edge-shafts, with floriated capi- 

 capitals and annular bases, resting on a circle of balls. 



" Besides the Norman character of the buttresses, additional indications 

 of a style earlier than that shown in the general form and details of the 

 windows may be traced in the square-shaped abaci of the shafts, and in 

 the foliage of the capitals, which has much of the thin, wiry, and rather 

 meagre execution of the floriations belonging to the Transition or 

 Semi-Norman period. 



" The same modification, or rather admixture of styles, is also observ- 

 able in the Norman arcade, which occupies the under compartment of the 

 elevation. This ornamental feature is arranged in couplets below the 

 windows, and separated from them by a narrow trigonal string, which, 

 after coursing their cills and making a slight vertical descent a little 

 beyond the line of the jambs, terminates in a horizontal return across the 

 buttresses, dividing them about midway. The semicircular arches fill the 

 whole breadth of each compartment, and are composed of a small sharp- 

 edged triangular moulding, set between quarter and half-rounds, with a 

 bold trigonal drip over. These spring from single cylindrical edge-shafts, 

 with Norman abaci and First Pointed capitals, and two central bearing 

 shafts of the same form, engaged by a small semi-octagonal member 

 sunk between. 



