Fig. 784.—Melrose Abbey. West Side of South Transept.
over the window arch, which diminish as they ascend towards the apex; and the gable coping, crowned with a pierced parapet, filled in with quatrefoils, corresponds generally in both cases. The design of the choir appears to have been borrowed from that of the transept, but is of a lighter character; or possibly the latter may have been damaged in 1385, and the upper part of both gables may have been designed by the artist who had charge of the restoration in the fifteenth century. It will be observed that flying buttresses are continued round this part of the structure as well as the nave.
Fig. 785.—Melrose Abbey. Clerestory Window in West Wall of South Transept.
As above stated, the upper portion of the choir walls has been reconstructed at a date in the fifteenth century later than the nave. The windows
