The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . Fig. 1272.—Fenwick Church. View of West End. FOURTH PERIOD — 160 FENWICK CHURCH. Fio. 1273.—Fenwick over Gallery Door. west gable is placed the broad massive belfry shown in Fig. 1272. Theupper part, including the pillars and the ogee roof, are modern, havingbeen renewed in 1864. The church was erected in 1643, and the first meeting of the kirk-sessionof Fenwick was holden be Mr. Mathew Mowat, minister of Kilmarnock, upone the twentie sevene day of Junethe year of God, 1644.* The
The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . Fig. 1272.—Fenwick Church. View of West End. FOURTH PERIOD — 160 FENWICK CHURCH. Fio. 1273.—Fenwick over Gallery Door. west gable is placed the broad massive belfry shown in Fig. 1272. Theupper part, including the pillars and the ogee roof, are modern, havingbeen renewed in 1864. The church was erected in 1643, and the first meeting of the kirk-sessionof Fenwick was holden be Mr. Mathew Mowat, minister of Kilmarnock, upone the twentie sevene day of Junethe year of God, 1644.* The east end,or the choir, is known as the Rowallanaisle, to the gallery in which there is aseparate entrance on the south side byan outside stair from the churchyard(a common feature in post-Reformationchurches). Over the door to the galleryis the tympanum shown in Fig. 1273,containing a shield with the arms of theMuirs of Rowallan, the initials of WilliamMuir, and the date 1649. This is theSir William Muir referred to in Vol. 386, as the historian and in part thebuilder of Rowallan Castle (which is abouttwo miles from Fenwick). He delytedmuch in building and planting
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