On a house opposite the abbey occur the royal arms, shown by Fig. 1452,
and throughout the village there are numerous carved and moulded stones
to be seen, showing that the whole place has been built out of the ruins
of the monastery.
In the Chamberlain’s Accounts for 1563 he describes the chapel “as being
so completely wrecked, that with a view to preserve the timber, he had
built up both doors; also the undermost door of the steeple. In the
cloister he had collected the slates which had been removed from the
roof. He had also repaired the broken windows, providing them with iron
framework. The abbot’s apartments he had partially
[Illustration: FIG. 1449.--Coupar Abbey.