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Above this window is a rectangular aperture in which a bell is 

 said to have hung. A stair on the east side of the gable leads 

 to the triforium and clerestory passages, as well as to the up[)er 

 monastic apartments, access to which has also been provided by- 

 steps leading up from the transept through a wide segmental - 

 headed opening in the S. wail. In the remaining fragment of 

 the W. wall there is an elegant pointed window; and in the 

 opposite wall are traces of another, of whicli the terminatiou of 

 the dripstone is here figured, along with two corbels from 

 the tables above the walls. (Figs. 30, 31, and 32.) 



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Fig. 30. 



Fig. 31. 



Fig. 32. 



The north transept, with its two-bayed aisle, and its eastern 

 Chapel (St. Mary's), in which Sir Walter Scott lies buried, has 

 evidently been the finest part of the church. The mouldings are 

 generally plain, but are carefully wrought, and characterised 

 by singular sweetness and grace. The arches of the bays facing 

 the transept are of three plain, chamfered orders ; those opening 

 from the choir are of three orders likewise, the two inner 

 chamfered, the outer composed of a series of rolls and hollows ; 

 the centre roll, which is the largest, being filleted. The pillars 

 are clustered, and have moulded capitals. Above each bay is 

 an opening to the triforium, squat in form, and with a depressed, 

 very obtusely pointed head, but enriched by the insertion of 



