The remains of another monument exist at the passage from the choir to the north aisle, but so mutilated that its design cannot be made out. The details of the sedilia and piscina in the choir are also much destroyed.
A few specimens of the fine carved work collected amongst the ruins are exhibited in the chapter house. Two of these are illustrated ([Fig. 554]), from which some idea of the richness and beauty of the details which have perished may be gathered. These probably formed caps of the outer piers of the nave aisles.
The transepts contain some interesting monuments. In the south wall
Fig. 555.—Elgin Cathedral. Monuments in South Transept.
of the south transept, called the Innes aisle ([Fig. 555]), is the canopied monument, bearing the arms (said to be) of Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany, who died in 1481. The shield on the sinister side of the tomb bears the fesse chequé and three antique crowns, the arms of the lordship of Garioch. Another canopied monument in the south wall, to the left of the above, is said to be that of Robert Innes of Innermarkie. These monuments are late, and a good deal damaged. The coats of arms on the shields do not correspond with those of the persons named above.
The north transept, called the Dunbar aisle, also contains several remnants of tombs. One in the north wall still retains the mutilated effigy of Bishop Columba Dunbar (1422-35), and another that of Sir Alexander Dunbar of Westfield, who died in 1497. In Slezer’s time the north gable of this transept was complete, and showed in elevation two stories of three single windows in each, surmounted by a triple light in the gable.