The ecclesiastical architecture of Scotland from the earliest Christian times to the seventeenth century; vol. 2/3MacGibbon, David
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The ecclesiastical architecture of Scotland from the earliest Christian times to the seventeenth century; vol. 2/3
MacGibbon, David
Church architecture -- Scotland
“He [Halderston] built the eastern gable from the foundations,
along with its arch [_arcuali voltâ_].” As Lord Bute remarks--“This
must mean only the east window, the greater part of the east wall
being of transition work” (see Figs. 443-444.) “He adorned
pleasingly the hinder vestry [_revestiarium_] with the reliques and
other restorations and cases [_clausaris_] at considerable
expense.”
Lord Bute thinks that “the revestiarium is evidently the east end of the
church behind the high altar, sometimes wrongly called the Lady Chapel,”
and refers for the use of this term to the contemporary accounts of the
death of the Red Comyn, in which he is sometimes stated to have been
dragged by the friars into the vestry, and sometimes behind the altar,
thus showing the space behind the altar to have been the vestry.
“He laid with a pleasing pavement the whole space not only of the
choir, but also of the transept [_transversarum capellarum_] of the
church, along with both sides [_lateribus sive panis_] of the
cloister, and also the outer chapter house [_inferius capitulum_].
He rebuilt, as it were, from the foundations the fair and
remarkable palace within the court of the prior’s lodging, along
with the handsome [_decentoribus_] oratory and chamber which are
there situated; and likewise domestic manor-houses in their [or
his ‘_suis_’] ‘_locaperhendinalia_’ [places where he might
occasionally have to stay, _perendie_ = the day after to-morrow],
such as Ballon, Segy, and Kynmoth.”
The following note on the above passage is subjoined by Lord Bute:--
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