is a lofty pinnacle.

The church occupies a commanding situation, from which the ground
falls away on the west and south sides. The monastic buildings were
on the south side of the nave, but on a lower level. Of these
structures considerable remains still exist. "The ground between the
dark walls and the church has, in recent years, been levelled up,
the outer portions of the monastic buildings serving as retaining
walls. With the exception of these outer walls, the site of the
monastery is thus buried."[352]

The refectory stood on the south side of the cloister, and the whole
length and height of its south and west walls still exist. The south
wall was divided into seven bays, and in six of them there are lofty
two-light windows. The eastern bay has a reading desk, from which
one of the monks read aloud during meals. It is lighted from the
outside by two windows. On the side next the hall there are two
lofty openings.[353]

Adjoining the refectory on the south-west is a large tower, beneath
which runs St. Catherine's Wynd, through a "pend" or archway, whence
it is called the "Pend Tower." "The outside of the refectory and
'Pend Tower' is very imposing, with a simple row of lofty buttresses
and windows along the top. The west gable wall of the refectory is
still entire, and has a large window of seven lights. The tracery of
this window is in good preservation, and is one of the most
favourable examples of a kind of tracery developed in Scotland
during the fifteenth century. At the north-west corner of the
refectory is the staircase tower, which leads down to the offices
below, and upwards to the refectory roof, over which access was
obtained to the upper story of the 'Pend Tower.' In the north wall
of the refectory, near the west end, are the remains of a flue,
which may have belonged to a fire-place. The 'Pend Tower' is still
entire, wanting only the cape house and roof. It served as a
connecting passage between the abbey buildings and the royal palace
beyond. A door led from the refectory by a passage into a groined
chamber, and from thence into a room in the palace situated over the
kitchen. The kitchen is a lofty room, now roofless, having remains
of large fire-places and some curious recesses. Below the kitchen,
but entering from another part of the palace, there is a l