The sacristy has a piscina in the south wall near the east end.
The apartment next the sacristy is 28 feet long by 11 feet wide. It has now been appropriated as a mausoleum, but may have originally been a parlour. There is an ambry in the south wall near the east end. The doorway is semicircular, and of Norman character (see [Fig. 412.]).
The east window is plain, and consists of two round-headed openings enclosed in a large semicircle (see [Fig. 411.]). The above two apartments are on the level of the cloisters; but the floor of the chapter house, which is next in order, is several feet below the level of the cloister walk.
The ordinary central doorway and side windows opening from the cloister (see [Fig. 412.]) are, however, placed in their usual position on the level of the cloister walk. The door is thus some five feet above the floor, and if the doorway was used for access to the chapter house, it must have been provided with a stair down, of which there is now no trace. The
Fig. 412.—Dryburgh Abbey. Transept and East Side of Cloisters.
