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[Page] 112. HISTORICAL MONUMENTS (SCOTLAND) COMMISSION.

PARISH OF THURSO.

plain intersecting tracery. The porch at the re-entering angle of
the nave and S. transept is a large one with stone seats, giving access
to the transept by a curious zig-zag entrance, not unlike the entrance
to a well-defended castle, which may be due to an alteration. There

[Drawing inserted]
FIG. 23. - St Peter's Church, Thurso : interior looking S. (No. 418)

is another porch in the N. transept. The masonry of the church
throughout is all of one class of local stone laid in thin courses,
except in the lower part of the S. wall of the cell, where some courses
can be seen, above the heaped up rubbish, of a distinctly different
character from the rest of the building.
Considered in its entirety it seems unlikely that the erection of
this church belongs all to one period, and that it was originally
planned as we now see it, with its transepts out of alignment with
each other, with the cell at the E. end, and the eccentrically placed