Fig. 216.—Dunfermline Abbey. The “Pend Tower” and part of Refectory.
The above passage and staircase are additions made, without doubt, at the time when the tower was built. This is clearly seen in Fig. 216. From this drawing it is obvious that the arches were thrown between the already existing buttresses of the refectory, and in the second bay the arch is at a low level to permit of the descending stair already referred to. The builders have just managed to save a very beautiful doorway
Fig. 217.—Dunfermline Abbey. West End of Refectory.
belonging to the earlier building, now hardly seen in the shadow of the overhanging addition.
To the east of the refectory there is a narrow chamber with the remains of a two-light window in the south wall, and projecting southwards from this is the lower part of the wall of the fratery reaching as high as the floor of the refectory. On the east side of the fratery extends
