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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

DESCRIPTIONS OF BUILDINGS.

Paisley Abbey (Cluniac),     Renfrewshire,      7

Dunkeld Cathedral (St. Columba's),     Perthshire,      28

Iona Cathedral (Cluniac Abbey),     Argyleshire,      47

St. Machar's Cathedral,     Old Aberdeen,      75

Trinity College Church, Edinburgh,     Mid-Lothian,      89

Parish Church of St. John the Baptist, Perth,     Perthshire,      104

Do. Dundee,     Forfarshire,      123

Glenluce Abbey (Cistercian),     Wigtonshire,      132

Parish Church of Torphichen,     Linlithgowshire,      139

St. Anthony's Chapel, Edinburgh,     Mid-Lothian,      145

Collegiate Church of St. Matthew, Rosslyn,     Do. 149

Do. St. Mary, Dunglass,     Haddingtonshire,      179

Parish Church of St. Marnan, Foulis Easter,     Perthshire,      189

Collegiate Church of St. Salvator, St. Andrews,     Fifeshire,      199

Do. St. Nicholas, Dalkeith,     Mid-Lothian,      205

Parish Church of St. Mungo, Borthwick,     Do. 214

Do. Our Lady, Ladykirk,     Berwickshire,      218