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| Remains of HOSPITAL [continued] | 005 | [Continued from page 35] was neglected and falling into decay was used as a quarry whence stones might be procured for any necessary purpose. That such was the case is evident from the fact that many in the village are built entirely of hewn Stones Such in size, form and apparent age as those of the portion which still remains standing while the greater part of the stone walls by which the adjoining fields are subdivided are composed of exactly similar materials In this manner have the walls of the nave been carried piecemeal atlength entirely away. There was also according to tradition another house of some size and unknown antiquity built close to one angle of the transept, a portion of which was standing about eighty years ago as the writer of this was informed by an old woman who died in 1837 at the age of eighty-nine. It was said to have been a seperate tenement built for the accommodation of the Knights, when their numbers had encreased beyond what the preceptory could Conveniently Contain. It communicated with the transept by a private door which is still visible though strongly built up. While the lovers of antiquity must deplore the dilapidation by which this ancient and very remarkable building has suffered so severely it must be gratifying to know as it is to record that it will be preserved henceforth from any such violence and desecration Its present Noble proprietor Lord Torphichen has with great good taste and judgment recently protected it from the wasting ravages of time and the weather by roofing Completely anew and closing the rents and chinks which here and there had deeply scarred its hoary and venerable walls so that remote ages may continue to complete the sole remaining monument of what was once a mistaken yet a very gallant order of [Continued on page 37] |
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