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arch-heads, the outer arches resting on carved capitals at 

 each end, and the intermediate ones on corbels supported by 

 angels. East of the sedilia, and under the Southern window, 

 which contains a double light in massive tracery, there seems 

 to have stood a piscina supported on a shaft from the 

 floor; and adjoining it on the East wall may be observed 

 a projecting corbel with a shield on its face, which may 

 have served to support an image or a light in connection 

 with the altar. The plan of the piers supporting the tower, 

 which is divided into three stages internally, is unusual. 

 While the two next the choir are in a line with the 

 Eastern walls of the transepts, the corresponding two next 

 the nave stand out from the angle of the nave and transept 

 walls, to which they are attached by a narrow strip of 

 masonry, thereby throwing the tower considerably off the 

 centre of the transepts, and reducing its width in comparison 

 with the other limbs of the cross. The occasion 'of this 

 divergence is not at first sight obvious, but has been accounted 

 for by the conjecture that the choir and tower were first 

 constructed, and that afterwards, when it was determined 

 to complete the building by the addition of a nave and 

 transepts, it was considered advantageous to increase their 

 width. The piers of the crossing are simply splayed and 

 notched on the inner diagonal faces, and are all alike ; but 

 the arch-faces or mouldings vary, those of the nave and 

 transepts corresponding with the piers, while the choir arch 

 is moulded on both faces, and springs from carved and 

 moulded capitals. The splayed base of the piers is omitted 

 on the chancel side. The South transept has been railed off 

 as the burying-place of the Halls of Dunglass. The nave, 

 which has been denuded of all ornamentation, having had 

 the tracery of the windows entirely destroyed, is entered by 

 doorways on the North and on the South. These are round- 

 arched with moulded jambs, in contrast with the other doors 

 in the choir and South transept, which are plain with lintels. 

 At the spring of the roof may be traced a row of recesses, 

 which may have been designed for the beams of the floor of 

 one of the granaries in use during the eighteenth century, 

 when the entire building is alleged to have been "employed 

 in a great variety of uses." It is certain that a graveyard 



