Sixth report and inventory of monuments and constructions in the county of Berwick . ng 3 feet 9 inches in thickness, and has been vaulted in sixcompartments, the moulded vaulting ribs springing from two centralpillars and corbelled wall shafts, as in the case of the northmost pillar is destroyed, but a portion of the other withthe moulded base remains in situ, and is of the same size and sectionas the fragmentary pillars placed in the calefactory. The western inventory of monuments, etc., in county of berwick. 143 Parish of Mertoun. wall is in a ruinous state, and does not exc
Sixth report and inventory of monuments and constructions in the county of Berwick . ng 3 feet 9 inches in thickness, and has been vaulted in sixcompartments, the moulded vaulting ribs springing from two centralpillars and corbelled wall shafts, as in the case of the northmost pillar is destroyed, but a portion of the other withthe moulded base remains in situ, and is of the same size and sectionas the fragmentary pillars placed in the calefactory. The western inventory of monuments, etc., in county of berwick. 143 Parish of Mertoun. wall is in a ruinous state, and does not exceed 7 feet in height. Theonly features of interest are an interior window jamb and part of anambry which remain at the south-west angle. The south wall isrepresented by foundations only. The eastern wall, however, remainsto its full height of two storeys, with indications of a row of mouldedcorbels at the level of the wall-head. In this apartment wasunearthed the boss shown in fig. 137. A corbel in the north-westangle of the apartment, which carried a vaulting shaft, is worthy of. Fig. 138.—Corbel in apartment of conventual buildings, Dryburgh Abbey (No. 258). notice (fig. 138). The upper floor of the conventual buildings hasapparently included the dormitory to the south, which must havebeen reached by a corridor from the door at the head of the stair inthe south transept. To the east of this corridor are indications ofthree apartments: two over the chapter house, one of which hasa fireplace in the corridor wall, and the third reached from thechurch by the wheel-stair. This portion may well have been theabbots lodging. The dormitory has been lighted by a series ofnarrow ogee-shaped windows within a single order of semicircularform, while the ground floor windows have arch-heads of similarform with enriched hood-mouldings, and are separated by plain 144 historical monuments (scotland) commission. Parish of Mertoun. buttresses of small projection, resembling Norman work, and te
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