et. "It has been a
small structure of about 26 feet 9 inches by 22 feet, of delicate
and refined pointed work, as is apparent from the bases of the wall
arcading and the edge of the surrounding seat, enriched with
nail-head ornaments, which still exist. The Lady Chapel appears from
an old view to have been a low structure, reaching only to the sill
of the great east window of the choir, and it was evidently vaulted
in two compartments."[349]

No stones now remain of the thirteenth century choir, as they were
all removed to make room for the modern church, begun in 1818;
before this, however, considerable remains of the choir and the
whole of the foundations were standing.[350] The choir was a
prolongation of the present nave, having transepts and a great aisle
on the north side. There was a lofty central tower of two stories,
with three windows in each storey facing the four sides, and it was
this part of the structure which suffered on the 28th March 1560,
when "the wholl lordis and barnis that were on thys syde of Forth
passed to Stirling, and be the way kest doun the Abbey of
Dunfermling."[351] The nave was used as a parish church till 1821,
when the new choir was opened. In the south transept of it are three
much-admired white marble monuments: General Bruce's by Foley
(1868), the Hon. Dashwood Preston Bruce's by Noble (1870), and Lady
Augusta Stanley's by Miss Grant of Kilgraston (1876). The remains of
King Robert the Bruce were discovered in 1818 at the digging for the
foundation of the new parish church. They were found wrapped in a
pall of cloth of gold, thrown apparently over two coverings of sheet
lead, in which the body was encased, all being enclosed in a stone
coffin. "There was strong internal evidence of the remains being
those of Robert Bruce, and after a cast of the skull had been taken,
they were replaced in the coffin, immersed in melted pitch, and
reinterred under mason work in front of the _pulpit_ of the new
parish church. An inlaid monumental brass was in 1889 inserted in
the floor over his tomb." Near the east end of the church is a
square tower, with terminals showing an open hewn stone-work, in
place of a Gothic balustrade, having in capitals on the four sides
of the tower's summit the words "King Robert the Bruce," and at each
corner of the tower there