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How beautiful it is to see such a variety of fine pillars as are here presented to the view of the beholder! but more especially the two grand pillars which support that quarter of the steeple, whose chapiters are carved in exact imitation of sea-cale; and likewise the multiplicity of ribs or springs in the building, which ascend from the variegated capitals to form an arch, supported with key-stones or knobs, which are adorned with scriptural figures, flowers, and vegetables, like cabbages, embossed in the finest style. The whole has a very fine effect, and resembles a piece of masterly basket-work, framed by the interweaving of the arches, and the lightness and elegance by which it is wrought. I shall now consider the south trancept, which a popular poet has finely described in the following lines:

By a steel-clench'd postern door,

The entrance now the chancel tall;
The darken'd roof rose high aloof
On pillars, lofty, and light and small;
The key-stones that locked each ribbed aisle,
Was a fleur-de-lys. or a quatre-feuille ;
The corbells were carved grotesque and grim;
And the pillars, with clustered shafts so trim,
With base and with capital flourished around,
Seemed bundles of lances which garlands had bound.

SIR W. SCOTT, Barte

Upon the west side of this trancept there is á door, having a shattered inscription above it, with a shield in the centre, which has two compasses in saltire, and three fleur-de-lys, one in dexter, one in sinister, and one in base. The inscription is this:

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I am uncertain what this writing signifies, but by another inscription it appears that John Morvo was the architect or keeper of this building, which I shall speak of presently. Laute signifies praise; which may be intended for the curious stair-case that leads from this door. And "Behald to the hende, quath Johne Mur

vo," may be to behold his handy works; or, as the compass goes even about truth and praise will stand with doubt, if beheld to the end. On the south side of this door is the following inscription:

John : morow : sum : tym : callit :
w: : : s : : : :d : born : in : parysse: :
certainly: and : had: in: keping :
al: mason: werk: of: santan
draps: ye hye: kirk: of: glas
gw : melros : and : paslay : of :
nyddysdayll : : : d : of : galway :
í: pray: to: god ::: d::: y: bath

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I presume that Morow, or Morvo, is the name of the same person, only differently spelt.

This is a most beautiful winding stair-case, which ascends up and finishes at the top with seventy-four steps, whose depth is nine inches. From this stair all the galleries extend around the south of the building, which have been embellished in front with stone balusters, the vestiges of which remain nigh the eastern window.

I suppose that these galleries have beeù intended for the singing boys who were employed to sing during the time of devotion at different altars: or for the domesticks to stand with torches to illuminate the church during the time of their grand processions. The roof above is very fine, the groins springing from the figure of a man oppressed with his load; and on the other side from the remains of an eagle. The key-stones are flowers, and a head muffled up with flowers; another has three hunting horns, and J. H. S. for Jesus our Saviour, all upon the shield. In the small aisle of this trancept is a font-stone, and the appearance of a build

ing for altars; also the appearance of an image upon a pedestal.

In the small aisle on the south of the chancel are two stone-coffins: the one on the south was discovered September 12, 1812, by digging about that place; the other was discovered October 26, 1812. The former is built on every side with hewn-work, and a niche to contain the head of the person, which is four inches out from the form of the coffin; there are flagstones above the built coffin, and engraved, the form of St John's cross upon them. The length of the skeleton is six feet, the shank-bones of which are almost entire. It is supposed to be the remains of Michael Scott, the famed wizzard, who was laid at the side of the font, where there was an altar, to say mass for his soul. There is a head erected upon stones nigh his feet, which has a very rude wizzard-looking appearance.

The latter is neatly done, being completely hewen from the solid stone in a concave manner, with a half circle to contain the head of the

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