There is a plain ambry in the east wall at a high level, and adjoining it in the north wall there is a recess, probably a credence, as suggested by the Rev. Dr. Pratt.[235] This part of the building is in a neglected condition, being fitted up as a toolhouse for the gravedigger’s implements. There is built into the interior of the east gable a memorial tablet, with very quaintly carved letters and mouldings, to the memory of Patricius Barclay dominus de Tolly, and his wife, Joneta Ogilvy, who died in 1547.[236] There were other interesting memorials connected with the church which are referred to by Dr. Pratt, but of these only mutilated fragments remain. The indignant remonstrance of the Rev. Dr. against the condition of the building, written thirty years ago, backed up by a poem by Principal Geddes, has not availed to secure any respect for the old walls.
The Church of Gamrie is frequently referred to in the twelfth and following centuries. It was granted by William the Lion to Arbroath between 1189 and 1198,[237] and in 1513 Mr. Henry Preston was presented to the Church of Gamrie by the Abbot of Arbroath. Probably the existing walls were erected about the latter date, but the details indicate that great alterations have been made on the building, which convert it into a seventeenth century structure.
GLADSMUIR CHURCH, Haddingtonshire.
A ruin near the village of Longniddry.
The parish of Gladsmuir was formed out of several other parishes in 1695, at which time this church (Fig. [1546]), now in ruins, was erected.
Fig. 1546.—Gladsmuir Church.
It was an oblong structure, and measures about 71 feet long by 25 feet
