Fig. 918.—St. Bridget’s or St. Bride’s Church. Monument of Archibald, Fifth Earl of Douglas.
with enriched mouldings, having a crocketed hood terminating in an enriched finial. At either side are two small buttresses, each containing
Fig. 919.—St. Bridget’s or St. Bride’s Church. Monument of James, Seventh Earl of Douglas.
a small statue and covered with a crocketed pinnacle. A parapet, pierced with quatrefoils, and which has been considerably renewed, runs along the top. On the wall at the back of the arched recess a figure, kneeling at an altar, is carved. A small shield over the altar bears the Douglas arms, and the scroll carried an inscription, now obliterated.
In Blore’s time this monument was sadly destroyed, and the small figures were scattered over the floor, but they have now been replaced and the monument restored.
The base of the monument bears an ornament of sculptured foliage, very closely resembling that on the two eastern pillars of St. Giles’, Edinburgh, the work on both being probably of about the same period, about the middle of the fifteenth century.