South Transept

This is one of the latest parts of the Abbey complex to be built; the 2nd church (as we call it) from the mid-1400s. Strangely it is also the least well surviving. Only the south transept (one of the "arms" of the cross-shaped church) stands to more than knee height.
The rest of the stone was removed from the island and some of the ashlar facings of the walls were used to repair the tollbooth on Edinburgh's High Street, the old "Heart of Midlothian"