Third or Late Pointed Period--Gradual transition from Middle Pointed
Style--Inferior, but peculiarly Scottish--Middle Pointed buildings
large and complete--Large Late Pointed examples, chiefly restorations
and collegiate, and designed as single chambers without aisles--Some
designed as cross churches, but often unfinished--Characteristic
features--Eastern three-sided apse and pointed barrel vault, with
stone roof--Groins avoided, and contrivances in lieu thereof--Windows
low--Surface vaulting instead of ribs generally used, but ribs
sometimes applied to surface--Examples--Stone roofs carefully
wrought--Independent invention--Examples of groined vaults--Decorated
barrel vault, and straight arches at Rosslyn--Forms of buttresses,
pinnacles, windows, tracery, &c.--Influences of Late English and French
Gothic--Doorways, porches, arms, central towers--Monuments--Figure
carving--Sacrament houses and smaller features well executed, perhaps
the work of French artists--Collegiate churches spread over the whole
country--Parish churches converted into collegiate churches, 1-7