Fig. 664.—Newbattle Abbey. Details of Tiles. A. An Olive-Green Ground, White Pattern. B. A Red Pattern on a White Ground. The different colours are done in the surface glazing.
It is put on about ⅛ inch thick, and the thickness of the tiles from 1¼ to 1½ inch. 		Fig. 665.—Newbattle Abbey. Details of Tiles. Ground Dark Green. Yellow Pattern, on a cut out Tile.

[Fig. 662] shows a series of vaulting ribs, the two upper ones being of a somewhat early date, while the others are later in character.

Many tiles have been found in the ruins, which are now preserved in the house; and a few of them are illustrated. In [Fig. 664] we have two square tiles, the lesser one having an olive-green ground with a white pattern; the larger one is a red pattern on a white ground. Those shown on [Figs. 665] and [666] are shaped tiles, cut out by hand to the actual form of the figure, so that each separate tile is of one colour—in [Fig. 665] it is a dark green ground with a yellow figure, and on [Fig. 666] a black and brown ground with a white figure.

Fig. 666.—Newbattle Abbey. Details of Tiles.

LISMORE CATHEDRAL, Argyleshire.

The Island of Lismore lies near the south end of Loch Linnhe, and at a short distance from the mainland of Argyleshire. In 1236 the See of the Bishopric of Argyle was transferred from Mackairn, on the south side of Loch Etive, to Lismore, where a Columban monastery had been founded by St. Moluoc at an early period.

The cathedral was probably erected soon after the transference of the see in the thirteenth century. It is said to have been a structure 137 feet in length by 29⅓ feet in width. Of this pile there now only survives a single quadrilateral chamber, without aisles, used as the parish church, and measuring internally 51 feet in length by 23 feet 6 inches in width ([Fig. 667]). It has four buttresses of simple form against the south wall, and two at each of the north and south angles of the east wall. The walls and buttresses are entirely covered with rough casting. There is a doorway near the centre of the south wall ([Fig. 668]) which has had a nook shaft on each side, and a round arched head with a water table, but its details are destroyed. In the interior the arched head is segmental, and the label has bold first pointed terminals ([Fig. 669]). There has also been a sharply pointed doorway in the north wall ([Fig. 670])—now built up—which retains in the interior a label moulding with head terminations, one being the head of a bishop.