The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . Fig. 1268.—Dairsie Cluucli. South-West Angle. adjoining buttresses have therefore been corbelled out so as to form a goodwide base for the support of the belfry. The mode in which the corbelling is carried out, and the whole characterof the belfry, including its curious balustrade, might well qualify it to bea turret in a domestic structure such as Glamis or Fy vie, while the doorway DAIRSIE CHURCH — 155 — FOURTH PERIOD of the churcli, with its Renaissance details and armorial panel, mightbelong
The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . Fig. 1268.—Dairsie Cluucli. South-West Angle. adjoining buttresses have therefore been corbelled out so as to form a goodwide base for the support of the belfry. The mode in which the corbelling is carried out, and the whole characterof the belfry, including its curious balustrade, might well qualify it to bea turret in a domestic structure such as Glamis or Fy vie, while the doorway DAIRSIE CHURCH — 155 — FOURTH PERIOD of the churcli, with its Renaissance details and armorial panel, mightbelong to any of the castles of the Fourth Period. The lands of Dairsie belonged to the See of St. Andrews, but in 1550,according to Pennant (Vol. iii. p. 189), it was feued out to Lamont of. Fig. Church. West Doorway, &c. Dairsie, and afterwards sold to Archbishop Spottiswoode, who publiclyand upon his own charges built and adornd the church of Darsy after thedecent English form, which, if the boisterous hand of a mad Reformationhad not disordered, is at this time one of the beautifuUest little pieces ofchurch work that is left to that now unhappy country. * * Spottiswoodes Life of Bryan, Lord Bishop of Winchester. FOURTH PERIOD 156 CUPAR-FIFE CHURCH It is shocking to all our ideas of seemliness and propriety to findthat only twenty-six years after the church was erected the fanaticalPresbytery of Cupar hacked and destroyed the whole interior woodworkand ornament of the church, not even sparing the ecclesiastical aims ofthe pious donor. The following extracts show that the interior was possessed of a con-siderable amount of decoration, but after two blasts of the Puritanictrumpet the place was changed into the bald condition in which it hassince remained
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