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and a large late obtuse pointed window with wooden
tracery in the E. [East] gable. Into the E. [East] wall of the nave
has been built a stone about 1 ft. [foot] long by about 6 or
8 inches deep enriched with good interlaced ornament.
A portion of the jougs is still suspended from the walls between the
2 doorways on the S. [South] side.
On finding my way to the old churchyard I met
Lord Polwarth who received me most kindly and
showed me everything of interest. At the end of
the flower garden below the house stands an
old circular dovecot. It is built in four storeys
counting the base with an aperture for the pigeons
in the centre of the roof. Over the doorway which
is in the basement is a tablet bearing the date
1576. It stands about 30 ft. [feet] high and has a diameter
of about 18 ft. [feet]. Against the basement Lord Polwarth
has placed buttresses to preserve it. In the old
churchyard are the scanty remains of a building
noted by Mr. Ferguson. Little remains except the
E. [East] wall which shows signs of reconstruction.
Besides the floriated cross noted there is leaning
against the So. [South] wall of the ruin a slab 5 ft. [feet] long.
1 ft. 8 in [1 foot 8 inches] broad at the head & 1. ft. 6 in [1 foot 6 inches] at base - with the
letters T.P. incised at the upper end and to the
one side of the centre of the stone an object with a
spear shaped head 4 ins [inches] long and a broad
shaft or stem 3.’6” in length with a rounded extremity.
The edges are chamfered and the corners rounded
There is also a large coped stone with a rounded

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