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Title: Sixth report and inventory of monuments and constructions in the county of Berwick
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Scotland. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions
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Publisher: Edinburgh : H.M. Stationery Off.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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10 H 0 I I I I I EAST ELEVATIONIP ilO rm Fig. 37.—Coldingham Priory (No. 74). which, with a base-course, is continued around the walls. The samedesign is carried round the east end of the choir (fig. 38) and alongthe whole of the north wall, excepting the two westmost bays, whereit has been broken off to make way for arcading in the transeptalchapel of 13th-century date. The general form of the earlier arcadingand the employment of the chevron enrichment on the east wall arecharacteristic of late Norman work, but the delicate proportions ofthe mouldings indicate the Transitional Period, which is further de- Ancient and Historical Monuments—County of Berwick.
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Fig. 38.—Detail of Wall Arcade, east end, Coldingham Priory (No. 74). To face-p. 38. INVENTORY OF MONUMENTS, ETC., IN COUNTY OF BERWICK. 39PAKISH OF COLDINGHAM. veloped in the style of the lancet windows above. The square angle-buttresses, which measure 6 feet over the walls, have each semi-circular shafts wrought on the exposed angles with naturalisticallycarved capitals and moulded bases. The north-east buttress containsa wheel-staircase 3 feet in diameter leading to the clerestory passage.The upper portions of the eastern buttresses have been renewed,while those at the west end have evidently been built when the southand west walls were repaired in 1854-55. The remains of the south transept are very fragmentary. Thewest and south walls exist to a height of only 7 feet above thepresent ground level. On these the shafts and bases of a wall arcade,Transitional in detail, corresponding to the great piers of the transept,occur. At the north-west angle there is an arched opening withmo

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