Fig. 330.—Kirkliston Church. View from South-West.
or first pointed. A square projection at the south-east angle of the tower contains a wheel staircase. The windows are mere slits. The roof of the tower is evidently comparatively new. It has a picturesque seventeenth century belfry on the east gable.
There is an old archway in the east wall of the tower, which connected it with the main building of the church.
Fig. 331.—Kirkliston Church. South Doorway.
In the south wall of the church there still exists, though partly restored, a splendid Norman doorway. ([Fig. 331.]) The doorway itself measures 4 feet 9 inches in width, and the whole door-piece measures 14 feet 7 inches over all. Besides the attached rolls on the jambs, which form shafts with caps, there are seven detached shafts on each side, arranged alternately large and small, with three large ones at each outer angle. These had all caps of transition form, but the carving is now almost completely destroyed. The arch, which is semicircular, has numerous mouldings, which are not arranged in the usual square orders, but have
