. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. 114 THE BARONIAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL Dairsie Church. -HE ecclesiologist may probably be puzzled to account for theappearance of an engraving of Dairsie Church in a collectionof ecclesiastical antiquities; but when he observes the curiouslittle history connected with the edifice, it is believed thathe will consider it pre-eminently entitled to a place amongthe marked historical types of ecclesiastical and remote as it is, it represents a vast project—even that ofcovering Scotland in the seventeenth century with such
. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. 114 THE BARONIAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL Dairsie Church. -HE ecclesiologist may probably be puzzled to account for theappearance of an engraving of Dairsie Church in a collectionof ecclesiastical antiquities; but when he observes the curiouslittle history connected with the edifice, it is believed thathe will consider it pre-eminently entitled to a place amongthe marked historical types of ecclesiastical and remote as it is, it represents a vast project—even that ofcovering Scotland in the seventeenth century with such church edificesand services as England has retained ; and though the structural partof the project went no farther than the building of the Church ofDairsie, and the doctrinal part was overwhelmed in wild commotions, it isimpossible to look without interest on this quiet little memorial of so brillianta failure, nestled in a clump of woodland stretching down to the gentle watersof the Eden. The accompanying plate gives a complete idea, not only of the generaleffect of the edifice, but of all its detail
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