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Transcriber's notes

Hoc Age Lumen Adest - Be diligent, while the light abides.

Transcription

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Chirnside
and get some lunch at the Waterloo Arms, which
seems comfortable. Refreshed I called on Mr. Smart
the parish minister, whom I met yesterday in the
train. He received me kindly & took me to his church

Dovecote
one of the prettiest village churches I have seen,
the work, except to a small degree where ancient, of
Sydney Mitchell. On our way we inspected a
quaint little pigeon house in the corner of a
cottage garden. Conical in form with an
opening in the centre of the roof for the pigeons.

Chirnside Church.
The main doorway on the S. [South] side of the church is the only
old feature remaining. It is a flat headed
doorway within a recessed semicircular arch of two
orders supported on cylindrical pillars with
cushion capitals and square abace. The outer
[sketch inserted] order has a double rounded moulding
[sketch inserted] and the inner is square edged with double
chevrons on the face. A couple of links of
the chain from which the jougs suspended
still hang on the outer wall to the E [East] of the
door. A sundial, square faced bears on its
base the inscription “Hoc age dum lumen est.”
It occupies a niche in the S. [South] angle of the W. [West] gable
High up on the wall to the right of the pulpit is a
small stone inscribed “'Helpe the pur 1573 – VE:"-
Train to Reston & home about 6.45.

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