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sieges which that fortress sustained in the 16th century the West Kirk could not escape
damage. At the period of the reformation it was an old building covered with thatch
and it soon became too small to contain the parishioners. To remendy this a new loft was
erected in 1589 and the church was repaired the year following and another loft erected in the north
aisle together with a pillar as a station for those who were under the censure of the church at the
foot of which they were place during public worship. Still however the church being too small it was
deemed necessary together with altering & covering the roof with slate also to build a new church adjoining
[---] old one by way of addition this was done in 1593. In 1594 there was also a manse built the site of
which is occupied by the present manse. The burying ground seems to have been nearly coeval with the
[---] of the church but at the above mentioned date it included but a very small space of the present
burying ground being confined to a part of of the rising ground on the south west corner of the church [and]
extending to little more than a hundred feet west from the present steeple. The north side which is
now burying ground was then a marsh and a road from led from the foot of the castle to [...]
[---] close by the range of old tombs at present standing in the middle of the [high] of the cemetery.
In 1772 a resolution was formed by the heritors, on account of the ruinous irreparable
[---] of the old Kirk, to build a new church & remove altogether the old kirk. This old kirk
[---] a piece of singular architecture. One building was added to another from time to time
untill it had the appearance of a number of houses drawn close together while the interior found
[---] no plan presented a multitude of petty galleries stucK up one above another to the very
[rafters]. The new church was completed in 1775 & was built on the site of the old KirK. It is
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This Name Book refers to Edinburgh 1852 - Sheet 34
OS large scale Scottish town plans, 1847-1895 - Scale: 1:1056