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INVENTORY OF MONUMENTS, ETC., IN COUNTY OF CAITHNESS. [Page] 111

PARISH OF THURSO.

there is a curiously planned staircase tower, placed at an acute angle
to the wall, so that it does not range with any limb of the cross. It
measures about 14' square over the walls; tapers very much as it
rises, and has in the centre of its S. and E. faces a rounded buttress of
unusual form, finished with a sloping offset 12' or so above the ground.

[Plan inserted]
FIG. 22. - St Peter's Church, Thurso (No. 418) ; Ground-plan.

A vaulted passage 8' long leads from the church in a slanting
direction to the wheel stair.
The N. and S. transepts are not in alignment with each other.
The S. transept, about 19' wide, is spanned by an arch on the inside
so as to continue the wall of the nave and choir after a manner found
in churches dating from about the period of the Reformation. It is
not unlikely that the N. transept was similarly treated. In the
gables of the transepts and nave are large pointed windows, filled with