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Fig. 945.—Creich Church. Interior of Doorway. |
Fig. 946.—Creich Church. Impost of Arches to South Aisle. |
The original structure ([Fig. 944]) has been an oblong single chamber, 60 feet by 15 feet internally. Apparently there has been no window in the east wall, and all the other windows appear to have been altered, except one near the east end of the north wall, which is 6 inches wide, and is round headed, and splays widely to the interior. All the other windows are square headed, and have probably been altered. It is not easy to say whether the doorway is original or not; it is situated in the position where one would expect it to have been originally. It is round arched, or, if pointed, only very slightly so. It has a stone lintel in the interior, raised in the manner shown ([Fig. 945]) to admit of the leaves of the door opening.
Fig. 947.—Creich Church. West Recess.
There is a south chapel or aisle entering from the church by a round-arched opening. The arch has the usual wide double splay resting on the caps of the responds at each side (see [Fig. 946]). This aisle has a massive base, stepped at various places to suit the sloping ground.
In the north wall there are two semicircular arched recesses, apparently for monuments. The westmost one ([Fig. 947]) consists of bead and hollow mouldings, with rosettes in the hollows. The other recess, near the east end, is of later workmanship, possibly of the seventeenth century; it has a projecting keystone containing the Barclay arms. On the floor, within this recess, but placed there in quite a temporary manner, there lies the very finely-incised monument shown in Fig. 948; the inscription, on a bevelled edge, bears that it is to the memory of David Barclay of Luthrie, who died in 1400, and Helen de Douglas, his wife, who died
