A. Presbytery. B. Crossing. C. Nave. D. North Transept. E. South Transept. F. Slype or Sacristy. G. Chapter House. H. Stair. J. Fratry. K. Tower. L. Cloister Garth. M. M. Western Side of Cloister N. N. Enclosing Wall. FIG. 622.--Lindores Abbey. Plan.] quarry, from which the public were accustomed to remove what they pleased. The whole place, early in this century, is described as heaped up with ruins and rubbish, so that even the ground plan could not be made out, and the abbey was known in the locality as the “Wilderness.” “This is now all changed; the rubbish has been cleared away down to the basement, and the plan of the building is distinctly seen.... About twenty-five years ago the foundations of a range of pillars, to the height of several feet, running along the north side of the nave, were laid bare by the partial removal of the rubbish by which they had been concealed. They were of the same elegant design as those fragments which remain; but very shortly after their discovery they were ruthlessly removed.”[79] [Illustration: FIG. 623.--Lindores Abbey. Gateway in Enclosing Wall, from South-West.] The abbey buildings (Fig. 622) consisted originally of a church, having an aisleless choir about 42 feet long by 24 feet wide; a nave, with north aisle, 132 feet in length by 40 feet in width; north and south transepts, measuring from north to south 111 feet, and, including the eastern aisle, 39 feet 6 inches wide; and a great tower at the north-west angle of the nave, measuring about 37 feet 9 inches over the buttresses. To the south of the nave lay the cloister garth, with its surrounding cloister walk, measuring over all 107 feet by 96 feet. The buildings entering from the east side of the cloister are the best preserved parts of the structure. Adjoining the south transept is the vaulted slype or passage leading to the eastward. Next to it is the chapter house, 49 feet long by 24 feet 3 inches wide; and to the south of the chapter house is a building 55 feet long by 32 feet wide over the walls, which was probably the fratry or day-room of the monks. It is provided with buttresses and windows on the east side. At the north end of this apartment was the day staircase to the dormitory. The west and south sides of the cloistral buildings are now almost reduced to the ruins of a single wall on each side. Some traces of partition walls and buttresses may be observed on the west side, but on the south side only a doorway at the east end can be made out. The refectory doubtless lay, as usual, on this side. [Illustration: FIG. 624.--Lindores Abbey. Piscina in North Transept.] The monastery was surrounded by a high wall, of which some portions still exist. This wall contains a large entrance archway (Fig. 623), with smaller footway at the south-west angle.