Responds of Piers.
Fig. 626.—Lindores Abbey.
Mouldings of Base of Piers.
Another doorway entered the nave from the cloister some distance westwards from the crossing. The plan and elevation of the portion still remaining are shown in Figs. 628 and 629. This doorway had, towards the cloister, two nook shafts, with bold dog-toothed ornaments on the angles between the shafts, and on the interior sconsion a double beaded moulding. A third doorway led from the west end of the cloister into the nave.
The north aisle of the nave is now scarcely traceable. The walls of the north-western tower, which occupies a position similar to the tower of Brechin Cathedral, still stand to a height of about 8 feet. The tower had large square corner buttresses, and smaller intermediate ones on each face, with a base consisting of three plain set-offs (see [Fig. 627]). A wheel stair occupied the buttress at the north-east angle. There is now no trace of the western doorway of the church, but the base mouldings are shown in Fig. 627. There is a recess for a stoup in the south wall near the west doorway.
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Fig. 627.—Lindores Abbey.
Bases at West End of Tower and Church. | Fig. 628.—Lindores Abbey. Plan of South Doorway of Nave. |