Fig. 517.—Dunblane Cathedral. West End from South-West.
decorated period. On the inner side of the clerestory gallery an arcade (see [Fig. 515]) is more elaborately carried out. Each bay contains two arches forming a continuous arcade, resting on clustered shafts with rounded caps and bases of first pointed style. The arch mouldings are
Fig. 518.—Dunblane Cathedral. Interior of North-West Angle of Nave.
also of fine bold first pointed form. Of this arcade, four and a-half bays on the north side and four bays on the south side next the east end have the arcade, without central shaft or tracery. The remainder of the clerestory arches on both sides have the opening divided by a central shaft carrying two pointed arches, and the arch head is filled with a quatrefoil cut out of a circular shield like those above described. The western bay ([Fig. 518]) is exceptional, having one arch with and one without tracery on each side of the nave, the openings without tracery being the east one on the south side and the west one on the north side. It may also be pointed out that the four east bays have ashlar work in the spandrils of the main arches, while the spandrils of the four west bays are filled in with rubble work.
The main piers and arches are all of nearly the same design ([Fig. 519]). They are set diagonally to the nave, and have four half shafts at the cardinal angles and one intermediate shaft and two square projections between on each side. In the south piers the square angle is cut off these projections, otherwise the plan of the piers is the same. They have all rounded first pointed caps, composed of mouldings over a bell, and the bases are of usual first pointed forms (see [Fig. 516]).
