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No. 130 -- ECCLESIASTICAL MONUMENTS -- No. 130

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Fig. 50. Cambuskenneth Abbey (No. 130); church, cloistral buildings and tower

attributed to the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries. At
the time when the church was excavated it underwent a
far-reaching restoration; Mackison's account states that
"Stone sedilia have been put round the ground-floor
apartment -- A new wood belfry floor has been put in,
and a flat roof constructed over the centre, leaving space
round it and within the embrasure parapet wall, for an
easy walk or pavement, -- Whatever materials were
found not belonging to the original structure were
removed; the introduced fire-places and flues were built
up; the broken window arches rebuilt; deficient portions
of the walls taken down and reconstructed; new doorway,
string courses, buttress weatherings, window mullions,
tracery, and necessary soles, jambs, arch stones and
labels, and the embrasure parapet wall, paved walk,
gurgoyles [sic], and turret gablets, were renewed; and
the whole walls properly strengthened." ¹

1 Op. cit., 118. A photograph of the tower as it appeared
before the restoration is preserved in the library of the Society
of Antiquaries of Scotland (Calotypes presented to the Society
of Antiquaries of Scotland by James F. Montgomery and
others, 1851.) Cf. also Mackison, op. cit., pl. 4.

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