It is proposed to conclude this work with some examples of the different styles of churches erected during the above period.
A number of specimens have already been given in a former work.[221]
These churches were introduced into a work on the domestic architecture of the country, in order to illustrate the influence of the domestic style on the ecclesiastical architecture of this period. Many of these edifices were, therefore, only partially illustrated, and it has been thought desirable to treat some of them more fully in this book, so as to complete the illustration and description of their architecture.
The examples which are now given will amply illustrate the remaining specimens which still survive of this somewhat heterogeneous epoch.
Most of the churches of the seventeenth century are either very poor imitations of Gothic work or tasteless examples of plain walls, while a few contain the germs of what might have been wrought into a picturesque style, founded on the domestic architecture of the period. Such, for example, are the churches of Stirling (west end), Anstruther Easter, and Pittenweem.
Several of the monuments of the period are also given.
The following examples are arranged in alphabetical order.
ABERDOUR, Aberdeenshire.
A village about eight miles west of Fraserburgh. In the Book of Deer it is written, “Columcille and Drostan son of Cosgrach his pupil came
