The church (Fig. 889) is cruciform, having choir and nave, both with side aisles, and north and south transepts without aisles. The choir is 77 feet long and 54 feet 11 inches wide internally (including the aisles), and consists of four bays; the transept is 105 feet 4½ inches long, from north to south, by 23 feet 2½ inches wide; and the nave is 47 feet 6 inches long by 56 feet wide (including the side aisles), and is divided into five bays. The structure is thus of considerable dimensions, the total internal length being 196 feet 8 inches. Over the crossing rises the central tower, 90 feet in height. The nave is the only part of the edifice which is roofed and occupied, being still used as the Parish Church. The choir and transepts are ruinous, and the walls have had to be supported with iron rances and ties, which greatly spoil the appearance of the interior of the choir. Otherwise the walls are pretty complete. There is no record of there having been any destruction of the church by popular outbreak at the Reformation, to which fact we may attribute the comparatively perfect state of the structure at the present time. The design of the interior of the choir (Figs. 890 and 891) comprises in each bay a main arcade, resting on simple clustered piers of rather diminutive height, having bases and caps, the mouldings and foliage of which clearly belong to the middle pointed or decorated period. There is no triforium; but the arches of the main arcade being large and lofty, comparatively little plain wall space is left between them and the string course, but the wall space below the clerestory windows is plain and heavy. The latter windows are pointed and filled with simple tracery. The choir was entirely vaulted, both in centre and side aisles, the central vault springing from vaulting shafts resting on the capitals of the main piers, but only stumps of the ribs remain at the springing of the vaults. The windows of the side aisles, which are lofty (see Fig. 890), have been provided with tracery, having rather elaborate cusping. Many [Illustration: FIG. 889.--The Parish Church, Haddington. Plan.] [Illustration: FIG. 890.--The Parish Church, Haddington. The Choir, from the South Transept.] parts of the building, such as the gargoyles, label terminals, caps, &c. are ornamented with grotesque carvings of various kinds of animals, [Illustration: FIG. 891.--The Parish Church, Haddington. South Side of Choir and East Side of Tower.] foliage, &c. (see Fig. 896). The tracery in the large pointed east window is modern. [Illustration: FIG. 892.--The Parish Church, Haddington. North Side of Nave.] On the north side of the choir a chapel has been built in the seventeenth century to contain the monuments of the Lauderdale family--a fine specimen of Renaissance work.[173] [Illustration: FIG. 893.--The Parish Church, Haddington. View from North-West.]