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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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levelcoincides with those of the adjoining apartments which were enteredfrom the lower ground-level to the south of the cloister-garth. Thewest wall of the chapter-house has a central doorway and twoside windows arranged in the usual relation to the cloister-walk. Ifthis doorway originally gave access to the chapter-house, a staircasemust have existed for that purpose ; it is therefore somewhat remark-able to find that there are now no indications of any such means ofaccess. The doorway has had an opening 4 feet 10 inches in width,which is now built up. The jambs are widely splayed to the exteriorand ornamented with single detached shafts and carved caps fromwhich the orders of the semicircular arch spring. The detail andornament closely resemble that of the doorway leading to the nave INVENTORY OF MONUMENTS, ETC, IN COUNTY OF BERWICK. 139 Parish of Mertoun.at the north-east angle of the cloister-garth and is also of theTransitional Period, but it has been considerably modernised. The
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Fig. 132.—Detail of decoration in Chapter House, Dryburgh Abbey (No. 258). side-lights appear to have been always unglazed. These windows arealso of Transitional character, measuring 4 feet between the straightin-goes formed in a wall 5 feet 6 inches in thickness. The mam 140 HISTORICAL MONUMENTS (SCOTLAND) COMMISSION. Parish of Mertoun. arch-head is in each case of semicircular form, without mouldings,enclosing two splayed and pointed arches springing from simplecaps, having square abaci and with double detached shafts placedat the centre and at each side of the openings. The chapter-houseis covered by a plain stone barrel-vault, which is in a fair state ofrepair, measuring about 20 feet in height from the floor to the crownof the arch. The interior is lighted by three plain lancet windowsformed in the east wall and by two similar windows in the sidewalls, which project beyond the main line of the east group of con-ventual buildings. It is to be noted that the haunches of the vault

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