[Illustration: FIG. 1097.--The Collegiate Church of Dunglass. View from
North-West.]
[Illustration: FIG. 1098.--The Collegiate Church of Dunglass. Interior
of Nave, looking Eastward.]
[Illustration: FIG. 1099.--The Collegiate Church of Dunglass. Interior
of Crossing from the Choir, looking West.]
corbels for supporting the floor beams still remain. The lower set of
corbels are set immediately above the apex of the tower arches, one of
them being seen in the sketches of the interior of the crossing (Figs.
1098 and 1099). In the north side of the west wall of the tower (see
Fig. 1098) a door opens into the nave at a high level, which probably
was reached by wooden steps, there being no stone stair of access to the
tower chambers.
[Illustration: FIG. 1100.--The Collegiate Church of Dunglass. Plan of
Piers of Tower.]
It will be seen from the drawing (Fig. 1100) that the plan of the tower
piers is peculiar. The two western piers stand out from the angle of the
walls of the nave and transept, to which they are attached by a strip of
masonry, only some 9 or 10 inches thick. The tower is thus considerably
off the centre of the transept, and is much less in breadth than the
limbs of the cross. The two eastern piers project from the angle into
the choir, but not so as to diminish the width of the transept. It is
difficult to account for the extremely unusual and eccentric position of
the tower supports. Possibly the choir and tower were first built, and
when the nave and transepts were erected, it was thought desirable to
make them wider than at first intended. The piers of the crossing are
simply splayed and notched on the inner diagonal faces, and they are all
alike; but the arch faces or mouldings vary, those of the nave and
transepts corresponding with the piers, while the choir arch is moulded
on both faces with shallow mouldings. The former arches spring from
moulded caps (see section Fig. 1100) and the latter from caps carved and
moulded
[Illustration: FIG. 1101.
The Collegiate Church of Dunglass.