Fig. 1470.—Innerpeffray Church. Arch near West End.
being situated in the same relative position as those at Seton and other churches.
The Church of Innerpeffray is peculiar, from having what resembles a chancel arch, situated at a distance of about 7 feet 6 inches from the west end. This arch (Fig. [1470]) is round and about 14 feet 2 inches wide. It has a splayed squint about 2 feet wide on the south side, as shown on the sketch. It is difficult to give a satisfactory explanation of this arch, but it seems to have formed a vestibule in connection with the stair leading to an apartment on the upper floor. The archway appears to have been fitted with some kind of timber screen, which, if it was a close one, would help to explain the object of the squint.
There is a room on the first floor reached by the wheel stair in the
Fig. 1471.—Innerpeffray Church.
Lintel of Eastmost Window.
north-west angle. This room, as it now exists, is of later construction than the church, and is not older than the seventeenth century. The stair, however, is part of the original construction, and is believed to have given access to a belfry on the west wall, as well as to the room which doubtless existed from the first over the vestibule, and which (see Fig. [1469]) was provided with a fireplace and a window in the west gable.