154 The Pre- Reformation Churches of Berwickshire. 



standing. What Pennant took to be the refectory was no 

 doubt the common room or parlour. The only portions of the 

 apartment remaining are the east and west gables — the latter 

 containing a superb rose Avindow of twelve cusped leaves, its 

 external side exhibiting two hollow-chamfered orders, sur- 

 rounded by a label. (Plate IV.) Underneath was a range of 

 cellars, of which only the westernmost two remain. 



The marks of the roof of what was probably the Kitchen, 

 now entirely removed, may be observed on the exterior of the 

 west gable of the refectory. 



Outside the W. wall of the cloisters, at its north end, are 

 three vaulted cells, which were probably used as chambers for 

 discipline. They are entered from the cloisters by a low door- 

 way at the north-west corner, and there seems also to have been 

 an entrance on their west side. 



A portion of the N.E. wall of the Porter's Lodge is still 

 standing a few yards to the south-west of the refectory. It 

 presents no details worthy of notice. 



The Cloister Garth is 93 feet square. At the north-east 

 corner a flight of steps led up into the chui'ch, through a noble 

 semicircular-headed doorway of four orders, and measuring 12 

 feet by 6 feet, in the S. wall of the nave. Only the two outer 

 orders, resting on disengaged shafts with foliaged capitals, (Fig. 

 28) remain ; the two inner ones having been removed and 

 inserted in the east wall of a burial-aisle at Newton, in the 

 contiguous parish of Nenthorn. This doorway has been very 

 similar to that in the W. wall of the chapter-house ; and like it 

 has had a large tooth-moulding in the outer and soffit planes of 

 the innermost order. The same wall shows, near its west end, 

 remains of a plain chamfer-edged doorway, now blocked up. 

 At the opposite side of the garth, in the south-east corner, 

 another flight of steps leads down to the level of the buildings 

 on the east, through a doorway, 7 feet 3 inches by 4 feet 2 

 inches, of three plain orders on its south or external side. A 

 smaller openinu;' in the south-west corner affords the means of 

 egress in that direction. 



The only traces of the ambulatory are the springs of the 

 vaulting in the E. wall, and some of the corbels which sup- 

 ported the outer roof. There is a large segmental-headed 

 recess in the W. wall, near its southern extremity ; and a smaller 

 one of similar form in the north end of the E. wall, at 



