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HADDINGTON.] -- INVENTORY OF MONUMENTS IN EAST LOTHIAN. -- [HADDINGTON.

the parapet of the tower on the north face ;
but on the south wall of the church are many
marks of bullets.

1 Cf. " The said Mr. George (Wishart) spacit
upe and down behind the hie Alter (of the
parish church) mair than half an hour." Knox,
Historie of the Reformation. ; 2 cf. Lamp of
Lothian, pp. 424-7 ; 3 Illustrations of Scottish
History (Maitland Club) pp. 75-6 ; 4 The
Archbishops of St. Andrews, Herkless and
Hannay, vol. iv., p. 239 ; Reg. Prior. St.
Andreae ; Archaeol Scot. i., p. 109 ff.; Proc.
Soc. Ant. Scot. vols. i., ii. (1855 : 1859); Scottish
Papers, vol i. ; Miller's Lamp of Lothian ;
Inquisitiones Speciales, vol. i.

x. N.W. 19 July 1922.

69. St. Martin's Church.-The Church of St.
Martin, dating from the beginning of the 12th
century, stands on a

[illustration inserted]
FIG. 78.-St. Martin's Church
(No. 69).

slightly elevated
plateau at the east-
ern extremity of the
burgh of Hadding-
ton. It has been a
small rectangular two
chambered structure
comprising nave and
chancel, of which the nave is the only portion
that remains ; but it is stated* that in course
of a previous excavation the eastern termin-
ation was found and measured 12 feet square ;
the excavations carried out by H.M. Office of
Works in 1912, however, failed to reveal these
foundations.
The nave (fig. 78) measures internally some
55 1/4 feet by 16 1/2 feet; the lateral walls and west
gable are 4 1/2 feet thick and the chancel wall
3 1/2 feet thick, all built of irregularly coursed
freestone with ashlar dressings. The nave is
covered with a slightly pointed barrel-vault,
which may not be an original feature; of this a
portion at the western end still remains. Above
the vault there has been an upper storey lighted
by windows in the west gable. An external
offset course returns around the walls at wall
head level.
In the 13th century buttresses were added
to the lateral walls, apparently in connection

* Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland vol. i,
p. 363.

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with the construction of the vault. These
have a projection of 4 feet and rise from a
splayed basement course in three stages to a
steeply pitched weather table under the offset
course.
There is a doorway on the north and another
on the south ; the windows, one on the north
and two on the south, are narrow round-headed
lights with chamfered jambs and wide-splayed
ingoings, their scoinson arches are semi-circular.
An aperture in the west wall appears to have
been a window similar to those just described.
The chancel arch (fig. 79) 7 feet wide, is not
centred in the east wall, probably to provide
space for an alter on the north. It is semi-
circular in form and springs from a simple im-
post moulding 6 1/2 feet above the ground. The
arrises are chamfered. A round-headed piscina
with a fragmentary basin is placed south of the
chancel arch ; on the jamb and head is wrought
a grooved chamfer.
The walls are pierced by three tiers of holes
resembling those at St. Helen's Church, Ber-
wickshire. (Cf. Inventory of Monts. in Ber-
wickshire, Art. No. 46). Their purpose is
obscure, and their position negatives the
suggestion that they held put-logs for scaff-
olding. The structure has been thoroughly
repaired by H.M. Office of Works.
HISTORICAL NOTE.-Alexander de St. Martin
got various lands near Haddington from Coun-
tess Ada, mother of William the Lion, at some
date between 1153 and 1178,1 but his connec-
tion, if any, with the church is not known. His
name lands may have carried the saint's name
from an earlier foundation. The lands and
tenements of St. Martinsgate with mills and
other pertinents were gifted by Alexander de
St. Martin to the Nunnery at Haddington,2
which, in time, acquired also the tithes of the
church.3 The Nunnery held courts " apud
Ecclesiam S. Martini in lie Nungait."4

1 Laing Charters, No. 2 ; 2 Archaeol Scot.,
i., p. 109 ; 3 Lamp of Lothian, p. 382 ; 4 R.M.S.
(1566) No. 1753.

x. N.W. 11 July 1912.

CASTELLATED AND DOMESTIC STRUCTURES.
[Marginal note]
Duiand of Accounts,
p.290.

70. Lennoxlove.-The mansion of Lennox-
love or Lethington as it was formerly called,
lies within a pleasant and well wooded park in

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