The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . Fio. 1-J90. -Luiiysidc Cliuicli. Tliu Lych Gate. ELGIN CHURCH, Elginshire. Ill the centre of the main street of the town of Elgin stood the ancientcliurch of St. Giles, which probably existed before the transference of theEpiscopal See to the town. It was surrounded with a churchyard, inwhich the fairs were held and wooden booths or shops were erected. In1679 the vaulted roof fell, and the church was rebuilt in 1684. Theinterior is thus desciibed in Khinds Walks in Moray : Two rows ofmassive sto
The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . Fio. 1-J90. -Luiiysidc Cliuicli. Tliu Lych Gate. ELGIN CHURCH, Elginshire. Ill the centre of the main street of the town of Elgin stood the ancientcliurch of St. Giles, which probably existed before the transference of theEpiscopal See to the town. It was surrounded with a churchyard, inwhich the fairs were held and wooden booths or shops were erected. In1679 the vaulted roof fell, and the church was rebuilt in 1684. Theinterior is thus desciibed in Khinds Walks in Moray : Two rows ofmassive stone pillars, terminating in high Gothic arches, ran along eachside and supported the lofty arched roof. The church was 80 feet longby 60 feet wide. The annexed Sketches from Rhind (Figs. 1297 and 1298) show a FOUKTH PERIOD 184 TURRIFF CHURCH tower, which, like many of our old church steeples, might easily be takenfor a simple keep or Fig. 1297. Fio. 1298. St. Giles, Elgin. (Reprothiced frurii lihinds Walks in Moray.) This church was taken down in 1826, when a modern church waserected on the site. TURRIFF CHURCH, Aukudeenshihe. This ancient church, which was dedicated to St. Congan, is a very oldfoundation, having probably been established in the seventh century bya follower of St. Columba. It received donations at various early dates,amongst others one by King Robert the Bruce. In 1272 it was attachedby the Eail of Buchan to an alms-house for thirteen poor church was 120 feet long by 18 feet wide, but is now reduced to thefragment of the choir, crowned with the picturesque belfry shown inthe Sketch (Fig. 1299). The belfry is interesting as an example ofthe application to an ecclesiastical edifice of the Scottish style, as usedin the domestic architecture of the beginning of the seventeenth is a strong dash of Renaissance taste in the design ; l>ut the conricewith its small corbels a
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