158 The Pre- Reformation Churches of Berwickshire. 



a beautifully foliated circle. The clerestory is composed of a 

 pointed arcade, behind which is a passage in the thickness 

 of the wall. In the eastern bay of the choir, the clerestory arch- 

 mouldings — a series of boldly relieved rolls and hollows — are 

 supported by a single capitaled shaft; those in the other bays 

 rest on clustered shafts, and are mostly narrow, fluted chamfers. 

 Several of the arches have a peculiar bulge, giving them an 

 almost cusped appearance. The windows in the rear wall of the 

 clerestory are plain lancets of two chamfered orders externally, 

 the labels terminating in knobs of foliage or heads. Below, the 

 windows which light the aisle and chapel are also lanciform, 

 with labels over them both within and without : those facing the 

 east are of two plain-chamfered orders, with capitaled shafts in 

 the jambs; those looking to the north are likewise of two 

 orders, the inner chamfered and continuous, the outer a boldly 

 relieved roll carried round the head from the capitals of the 

 jamb-shafts. The external labels are rounded above, the hollow 

 on the under side being filled with the tooth-ornament. (Fig. 

 33.) Both aisle and chapel have a pointed stone vault, the groin 

 ribs meeting in elaborately sculptured bosses. 



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WheQ entire, the north elevation of this transept must have 

 been one of the most beautiful examples of First-Pointed 

 architectui'e anywhere to be found. All that now remains of it, 

 alas ! is the lovely pointed window at the east end, the only 

 survivor of the Three Graces which once adorned this part of the 

 edifice (Plate V.), with the east jamb of a larger but less ornate 

 window above. Nothing can be more admirable than the 

 exquisite proportions, and simple, yet graceful and effective, 



