Width of transept over walls (external measurement from east to west, not including buttresses), 54 feet. Considerable portions of these different divisions of the edifice still remain, but the greater part of the north side of the choir, the north transept and nave, and almost all the piers and pillars have been swept [Illustration: FIG. 461.--Arbroath Abbey. Plan.] [Illustration: FIG. 462.--Arbroath Abbey. Interior of East End.] away. Beginning at the east end, the eastern wall (Fig. 462) is entire for nearly half its height, having an arcade below, and three lancet windows above, with the lower portions of an upper row of similar windows. Somewhat less of the return wall of the south side of the presbytery, which comprises two bays, remains, and adjoining it is the sacristy (Fig. 463), a late building in a fair state of preservation. The end wall of the south transept is almost complete, together with a considerable portion of the west wall of the transept (Fig. 464.) This, being the best preserved portion of the structure, gives a good idea of the grandeur of the church. The whole of the south wall of the nave remains, showing a row of windows and indications of the groining of the aisle (Fig. 465). The main or centre aisle was not vaulted, but covered with a wooden roof. Most of the bases of the pillars of the nave [Illustration: FIG. 463.--Arbroath Abbey. View from South-East. (From a Drawing by the late Mr. Michie, artist.)] [Illustration: FIG. 464.--Arbroath Abbey. South Transept and Sacristy.] are in position, as are also the foundations of the north transept. The fragment of the west end with the two towers left standing (Fig. 466) is very striking, and impresses one with the sense of bold, vigorous work rather than of refinement of detail, although there is also a mixture of both, of which the west doorway (Fig. 467) is an example. It is round arched, and its outer order, if it may be so called, extends inwards for about five feet, unadorned as a bold and plain tunnel arch, having a [Illustration: FIG. 465.--Arbroath Abbey. Interior of Nave and South Transept.] pointed arch in each ingoing. It then becomes shafted and richly moulded, after the transition manner. This arrangement, while it gives a fine shadow under the arch, has a feeling of rudeness, which, to a considerable extent, characterises the whole west front. There is a remarkable resemblance in the decoration of this doorway to that of the doorway in the porch of Lerida Cathedral, Spain, supposing the tunnel arch of Arbroath away, and the moulded part brought forward to the face of the wall (Fig. 468), as is the case at Lerida (Fig. 469.) In both instances the outer enrichment of the zig-zag ornament is separated by a few mouldings from a large bead enriched at regular intervals by a ring [Illustration: FIG. 466.--Arbroath Abbey. West End of Church and North-West Tower.]