Fig. 1267.
Tullibardine Church.
Jamb of Transept Arch.
Fig. 1272.—Maybole Collegiate Church. Plan.
element would not be wanting in the society of the place. At the Reformation the house of the provost was the scene of a celebrated debate between John Knox and Quentin Kennedy, Abbot of Crosraguel, in September 1561.
The college stands on gently sloping ground near the base of the hill on which the town is situated, and is now enclosed within the streets.
In 1371 a chapel was founded in Maybole by Sir John Kennedy of Dunure, and endowed for one clerk and three chaplains. This was probably the earliest foundation of the kind established in Scotland, but it had many successors as collegiate churches in the following century.
Fig. 1273.—Maybole Collegiate Church. View from South-West.