Fig. 629.—Lindores Abbey.
Jamb of South Doorway of Nave.
As already mentioned, the vaulting of the slype ([Fig. 630]) is fairly well preserved. It consisted of two square bays, and had plain splayed groins springing from corbels, which have all a decidedly first pointed character. The doorway next the cloister had a pair of nook shafts, and the east doorway was plain. A stone bench runs along both sides of the slype.
The chapter house has had a stone bench running round the walls, and an arcade all round rested upon it. The shafts and bases can still be traced. The straight staircase to the south of the chapter house no doubt led to the dormitory, which would extend over the fratry to the south as well as the chapter house, A room over the slype may have been the scriptorium or library. The night passage of the monks to the church evidently passed through that apartment, as the stair was in the south-west angle of the transept, and could only be reached in that way.
Fig. 630.—Lindores Abbey. Interior of Slype.