connection with the erection of a monument to Egidia Blair, Lady Row, a benefactress of the abbey, who died in 1530. The engraved recumbent stone over her grave, bearing her arms and name, still exists; but scarcely a trace of the monument survives. [Illustration: FIG. 816.--Crosraguel Abbey. Sedilia.] The nave is divided from the choir by a wall, which has been erected in the sixteenth century (the upper part is seen in Fig. 819), probably when the monks required protection, or owing to their number having become diminished, when so large a church was unnecessary. This central wall partly blocks up one of the nave windows, thus showing that it was an afterthought. It seems, however, to have been substituted for an older wall, which may have contained an arch between the nave and [Illustration: FIG. 817.--Crosraguel Abbey. Choir and Apse, from South-East.] [Illustration: FIG. 818.--Crosraguel Abbey. View from North-East.] [Illustration: FIG. 819.--Crosraguel Abbey. Cloister, looking North-East.] choir. The nave, thus separated from the choir, was known as St. Mary’s or the Virgin’s Aisle. The wall contained a wheel staircase, and is crowned with a good double belfry, surmounted by a well-carved cross (Fig. 820), containing hearts in the centre, and having each arm cut into the form of a cross. This may possibly be in imitation of the crossleted crosses of the Kennedy arms. The pointed doorway from the nave to the choir is of good, simple design, and has been defended with a strong sliding bar, the slot in the wall for which still exists. [Illustration: FIG. 820. Crosraguel Abbey. Cross on Belfry.]