The church is surrounded by a burial-ground, which was used for interments within recent years, but is now abandoned.
KIRKLISTON CHURCH, Linlithgowshire.
Some portions of the old Church of Kirkliston, situated about seven miles west of Edinburgh, including the tower and two ancient doorways, stand in the churchyard, on the high north-west bank of the Almond Water, in the village of Kirkliston. The main body
Fig. 329.—Kirkliston Church. Plan.
of the church, so far as can now be ascertained, was an oblong structure ([Fig. 329]) about 60 feet in length by 26 feet in width externally, but part of the north wall has been removed, so as to allow the church to be extended. The old tower ([Fig. 330]) stands at the west end of the structure. It is about 21 feet square, and has the solid buttresses projecting on both sides of the angles, which indicate early work—transition
