t on the face, the
latter are flatter. The caps are simple and of an ordinary
transitional form, each with a square abacus. The bases are also
simple, and stand on a massive square plinth, a feature not uncommon
in Norman work. The arches of the main arcade are somewhat acutely
pointed, and the mouldings are bold, and resemble first pointed
work."

The clerestory shafts are of trefoil section; the arches are all
pointed, and contain first pointed mouldings. The west end of the
nave and doorway are Norman in character, and Sir Gilbert Scott
declared the great western doorway and south doorway to be "perfect
gems of refined Norman of the highest class and most artistic
finish." The doorpiece is surrounded by three gablets, the central
one still retaining a trefoiled arch. The west wall has flat
buttresses of Norman character, and "the upper portion of the wall
has a central round-headed window, flanked on each side by three
small pointed arch heads, the caps carrying which rested on long
single free shafts, now gone. The central window has deep mouldings,
but no enrichments. The west front has been finished with an
octagonal turret on each side, as at Kelso Abbey, and the gable
contains a central circular window, which has been filled with
tracery at a late date. The west end walls of the aisles have each
contained a circular-headed window of Norman design, with a chevron
ornament in the arch and a nook shaft at each side."

"The lower part of the walls of the choir and the western wall and
doorway and south doorway being all of Norman work, it seems
probable that the whole building was set out and partially executed
in Norman times, and that the work was either stopped for a
considerable period and then resumed, or that the structure, after
being completed, was destroyed, and had to be restored in the late
Transition style. The Transition work is well advanced in style, and
may be regarded as being of the date of the end of the twelfth
century or beginning of the thirteenth century."

"The Norman north transept is fairly well preserved, but both the
north and south transepts have undergone great repairs about the end
of the fifteenth century. The crossing appears to have been so
greatly damaged by the assaults of the fifteenth century that it was
found necessary to rebuild