Fig. 1380.
Dysart Church.
Cap of Piers at south Aisle and North-West Respond.
of the tower, and the large south porch with its stone covered roof and round arched doorway, over which is the canopied niche (Fig. [1378]), and the bracket, ornamented with the pot of lilies, for supporting a statue. The figure was therefore probably one of the Virgin. The windows in the south aisle wall were (some of them at least) square headed.
Fig. [1379] shows the capital of the pillar in the north aisle as far as it can be seen, on account of the modern wall in which it is almost lost. It is formed to the shape of the double splayed arch moulding, and dies off into the round pillar below. The mouldings of the cap indicate very late work. Fig. [1380] is a still simpler cap from the south aisle and from the north-west respond.
KILCONQUHAR CHURCH, Fifeshire.
A small ruin consisting of three arches of an old church, which stood on the ancient site before the present modern structure was erected in the immediate vicinity. The village of Kilconquhar is situated on a large loch about one mile and a half north-west from Elie.
Fig. 1381.—Kilconquhar Church. View from South-West.
The name is derived from the ancient Saint Connacher. There is little of the history of the church preserved. It was granted in 1200 by Duncan, Earl of Fife, to the Convent of North Berwick, and in 1266, after a controversy between the Laird of Kilcomath and the prioress of North