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DIRLETON ] -- HISTORICAL MONUMENTS (SCOTLAND) COMMISSION. -- [DIRLETON.

plan, runs north-east and south-west, and the
interior has measured more than 500 feet in
length and some 400 feet in breadth. Part
of the north-eastern end having been cut off
by the public road, it is impossible to ascertain
the exact original length. The north-western
flank runs along the top of a declivity too steep
for cultivation which rises some 25 feet above
the hollow below. It is only among the trees
to the north-east that the defences can be
traced with certainty, and here is a short
segment of the north-western rampart, broad-
ened out to a width of 21 feet and rising 2 feet
in height, with a segment of the south-eastern
flank, where are two ramparts placed 43 feet
apart ; the inner of these is 20 feet in breadth,
1 1/2 feet high on the inside and 4 1/2 feet high on
the outside, and the outer rampart is 27 feet
broad and 5 1/2 feet high. Some 30 feet from the
side of the road a modern turf dyke has been
built, but between it and the road there is a
small portion of a mound, 12 feet broad and
4 feet high, which may have formed part of the
original inner rampart encircling the north-
eastern end of the fort.

xv. N.W. 22 May 1913.

MISCELLANEOUS.

23. Bell. - Within the tower of the modern
Parish Church is a bell 1 foot 3 1/2 inches in
diameter at skirt. It is inscribed " Michael ·
Burgerhuys · me · fecit 1618." The canons
are complete.

x. S.W. 30 May 1913.

DIRLETON.

ECCLESIASTICAL STRUCTURES.

24. Old Parish Church, Gullane. - The ruin of
the old Parish Church of Gullane which was
dedicated to St. Andrew lies within the church-
yard on the north side of the village street.
The structure dates from the second half of
the 12th century and has been altered in the
13th and 15th centuries. It is oblong on plan
(fig. 52), and has a long narrow nave, without
aisles, that opened into a chancel of lesser
width by an archway, which is now built up.
At the eastern end of the nave a transept was
added c. late 15th century projecting from the
north wall and opening to the nave by an
archway, since filled in, and with a compara-
tively modern doorway inserted in the infilling.
Modern partitions divide the ruin into private
burial places.
The chancel is square-ended and has been
prolonged 17 feet from the length of 20
feet obtaining, as shewn by the window
details, in the 13th century. The width is
16 feet and the walls are 3 feet thick. In the
north wall is an arched recess, 2 1/2 feet high and
2 feet broad, now built up but possibly the

[Plan inserted]
FIG. 52. - Parish Church, Gullane (No. 24).

remains of a sacrament house. In the south
wall are two narrow 13th century lancet
windows with pointed arched heads.
The chancel arch (fig. 53) is 8 feet wide and
has two plain orders on the eastern face. To
the nave the archivolt is enriched with the
chevron ornament beneath a triple surfaced
[Marginal note] = [tile]
label. The jambs are square, and from each
projects a semi-shaft terminating in multi-
cubical capitals with cabled neckings. The
rybats on the western side of the jamb are
secondary.
The nave has been altered in post-Reformation
times so as to leave no features of interest.
The width is 19 feet and the length indeter-
minate.
The built-up archway to the transept is
semicircular. The archivolt and jambs have
chamfered edges and are separated by impost
capitals. The transept has been lit from an
arch-headed window in its north wall now
built up.
The external dimensions are as under:-
Nave -- 25 feet wide with a present length
of 71 feet.
Chancel -- 21 1/2 feet wide with a present
length of 37 feet.
Transept -- 21 1/4 feet wide with a present
length of 20 1/2 feet.

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