Fig. 927.—St. Bride’s Collegiate Church. Interior of Choir.
Fig. 928.—St. Bride’s Collegiate Church. Doorway to Sacristy.
from a point considerably below the junction with the jambs, which gives it a broken appearance. An inner moulding, finished with well wrought bases, runs round the exterior of the windows. The roof of this church, like that of so many erected at a somewhat later period, is covered with overlapping stone slabs, which rest on a pointed barrel vault ([Fig. 927]), for the purpose of supporting it. This is the earliest example we have met with of this form of vault, which became very common in the churches of the following period. That at Lincluden, already referred to, is similar, but had a groined vault beneath it. The vault is ornamented with moulded ribs at intervals, springing from small moulded corbels. There is also a ridge rib, and bosses occur at the junction with the curved side ribs. The buttresses are simple in outline, and have a deep series of set offs at top, and those next the doorway have small cusped niches in the face of each. The stone work of the roof is very carefully executed, every stone being curved so as to throw the water away from the joints. The cornice is rather more prominent than usual.
Fig. 929.—St. Bride’s Collegiate Church. Sedilia.