Welsh Journals

example is at Fountains, where the vaulting of its twenty bays remains intact. The dimensions of this structure at Whitland is ample indication of the size and importance of that house. There are no other remains of the abbey now standing above ground, but in the garden and at the modern house are preserved numerous worked and moulded stones of the twelfth and later centuries, including remains of coupled capitals and bases from the cloister arcade. Built into the house, above the doorway, is a carved stone with the arms and supporters of Henry VII, and flanked by two Tudor roses. ST. DOGMAELS ABBEY. The Abbey of St. Mary the Virgin at St. Dogmaels was founded about 1115 for monks of the reformed Benedictine order of Tiron. A small Abbey at Humber- stone in Lincolnshire appears to have been the only other house of the order in the Kingdom, though it was not uncommon in Scotland. The site immediately adjoins the parish churchyard of St. Dogmaels on the south, and the ruins have recently been the subject of a paper by Mr. H. M. Vaughan, F.S.A. in Y Cymmrodor. The remains of the Church consist of the north transept and the north and west sides of the aisleless nave. The presbytery has entirely gone though fragments of it are shown standing in Buck's view (1740). The north transept is apparently entirely of late fifteenth-century date, and has the striking peculiarity that much of the dressed stone is pudding-stone, a most unpromising material for the purpose. The interior retains the springers of a former panelled vault, probably of fan form the two northern corbels are carved with the symbols of St. Matthew and St. Mark, the other two evangelists probably appearing in the now destroyed southern angles. The intermediate corbel on the west is carved with an angle holding a shield. The windows of the transept are simple, pointed openings and have