The building is chiefly remarkable from containing an elaborately sculptured monument to Alexander M'Leod of Dunvegan or Harris.
The structure (Fig. 1298) is small and is cruciform in plan. It has a square tower at the west end, the full width of the nave, which is founded on a rock at a higher level than the nave (Fig. 1299).
The choir is not architecturally distinguished from the nave, and the whole building is 61 feet in length (internally) by 15 feet in width.
It has a square east end, and is lighted by a large traceried east window, and by two small windows in the side walls. The former is
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Fig. 1302.—Priory Church of St. Clement. Responds and Mouldings at Entrance to Transepts.
pointed, and is divided by two mullions into three lights. The tracery in the arch-head consists of a circle divided by six radiating bars.
The church (Fig. 1300) has two square-headed windows and two pointed windows in the south wall, and one square and one round-headed window in the north wall (Fig. 1301), and the entrance doorway, which is in the north wall, is also square lintelled.
The transept consists of a north and south chapel, which are not exactly opposite one another. They have square-headed windows in the north, south, and east walls. Each chapel is entered from the nave by a moulded and pointed arch (see Figs. 1300 and 1301) springing from
