Third or Late Pointed Period--Gradual transition from Middle Pointed Style--Inferior, but peculiarly Scottish--Middle Pointed buildings large and complete--Large Late Pointed examples, chiefly restorations and collegiate, and designed as single chambers without aisles--Some designed as cross churches, but often unfinished--Characteristic features--Eastern three-sided apse and pointed barrel vault, with stone roof--Groins avoided, and contrivances in lieu thereof--Windows low--Surface vaulting instead of ribs generally used, but ribs sometimes applied to surface--Examples--Stone roofs carefully wrought--Independent invention--Examples of groined vaults--Decorated barrel vault, and straight arches at Rosslyn--Forms of buttresses, pinnacles, windows, tracery, &c.--Influences of Late English and French Gothic--Doorways, porches, arms, central towers--Monuments--Figure carving--Sacrament houses and smaller features well executed, perhaps the work of French artists--Collegiate churches spread over the whole country--Parish churches converted into collegiate churches, 1-7 DESCRIPTIONS OF BUILDINGS. Paisley Abbey (_Cluniac_), Renfrewshire, 7 Dunkeld Cathedral (St. Columba’s), Perthshire, 28 Iona Cathedral (_Cluniac_ Abbey), Argyleshire, 47 St. Machar’s Cathedral, Old Aberdeen, 75 Trinity College Church, Edinburgh, Mid-Lothian, 89 Parish Church of St. John the Baptist, Perth, Perthshire, 104 Do. Dundee, Forfarshire, 123 Glenluce Abbey (_Cistercian_), Wigtonshire, 132 Parish Church of Torphichen, Linlithgowshire, 139 St. Anthony’s Chapel, Edinburgh, Mid-Lothian, 145 Collegiate Church of St. Matthew, Rosslyn, Do. 149 Do. St. Mary, Dunglass, Haddingtonshire, 179 Parish Church of St. Marnan, Fowlis Easter, Perthshire, 189 Collegiate Church of St. Salvator, St. Andrews, Fifeshire, 199 Do. St. Nicholas, Dalkeith, Mid-Lothian, 205 Parish Church of St. Mungo, Borthwick, Do. 214 Do. Our Lady, Ladykirk, Berwickshire, 218 Collegiate Church of St. Mary and Holy Cross, Seton, Haddingtonshire, 223 Collegiate Church of Arbuthnott, Kincardineshire, 235 Do. Saints Mary and Kentigern, Crichton, Mid-Lothian, 243 Collegiate Church of St. John the Baptist, Corstorphine, Do. 250 Collegiate Church of St. Macrubha, Crail, Fifeshire, 263 Parish Church of St. Mary, Whitekirk, Haddingtonshire, 269