156 The Pre- Reformation Churches of Berwickshire. 





Fig. 29. 



as Mr.Muir remarks, " a more unequivocal specimen of ordinary 

 Second-Pointed work does not exist in the country." Though 

 a fairly good example, it is not of conspicuous merit. On either 

 side of it are observable traces of two windows, which have 

 lighted the nave aisles. The piers of the nave are square in 

 plan, but are placed diagonally, presenting to each of the cardinal 

 points a broadly filleted half-round, with shallow mouldings on 

 the intermediate sides. None of the capitals have been 

 preserved. 



"Very little of the presbytery is left, and none of its principal 

 features survive. The N. wall shows, on the outside, the bases 

 of two buttresses ; and there has been a turret at the north-east 

 angle, which has contained a wheel-stair. The base-course of 

 this portion of the building, and apparently of the whole church, 

 excepting the nave, has consisted of three unequal, gradually- 

 retiring steps or stages, each sloping above, with a prominent 

 pointed roll, carried round the wall as a string-course, a few 

 inches above the upper one. An angle-shaft is sunk in the 

 external projection of the north-east turret just referred to. 



The south transept is represented by its south gable, and por- 

 tions of the E. and W. walls. The gable contains a fine window 

 of five pointed lights embraced within a round-headed arch, 

 which presents externally a series of plain and hollow-chamfered 

 orders, and has a shafted rear-arch within. The monials rest 

 on the north gable of the monastic buildings, which has been 

 graduated or stepped, in order to afford them adequate support. 



