Fig. 465.—Arbroath Abbey. Interior of Nave and South Transept.
pointed arch in each ingoing. It then becomes shafted and richly moulded, after the transition manner. This arrangement, while it gives a fine shadow under the arch, has a feeling of rudeness, which, to a considerable extent, characterises the whole west front. There is a remarkable resemblance in the decoration of this doorway to that of the doorway in the porch of Lerida Cathedral, Spain, supposing the tunnel arch of Arbroath away, and the moulded part brought forward to the face of the wall ([Fig. 468]), as is the case at Lerida ([Fig. 469].) In both instances the outer enrichment of the zig-zag ornament is separated by a few mouldings from a large bead enriched at regular intervals by a ring
Fig. 466.—Arbroath Abbey. West End of Church and North-West Tower.
round the bead. The inner mouldings at Lerida are further enriched, while at Arbroath the orders are simply moulded; but the sequence of the first two orders of enrichment is interesting from its occurring in two buildings probably erected at about the same time and at such a great distance apart. A similar ring ornament, on a large scale, is also to be seen in a doorway at Lamington, Lanarkshire,[26] where it is likewise used along with the zig-zag, but there the ringed order is the outer enrichment.
