Entering the nave, our attention is at once arrested by the massive round pillars, which give a look of great antiquity to this part of the building. Although the shafts of these pillars are Norman, the arches which rest upon them are Gothic, and the general style is Early English or First Pointed. The period when the nave was erected, the beginning of the fifteenth century, was the time when the Early English style was only coming to an end in Scotland, although it had been superseded in England by the Perpendicular, a hundred years before, "We have thus in the nave two notable features of Scottish Church architecture illustrated, first, the fact that the styles are later in Scotland than in England by at least a century; and second, that curious and occasional breaking out of characteristics of the Norman style in a much later period, which the cylindrical pillars and the round arched clerestory windows exhibit. The general effect of the nave is massive, simple, and dignified.
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