Fig. 1605.—Turriff Church.
Belfry.
the domestic architecture of the seventeenth century. There is a strong dash of Renaissance taste in the design; but the cornice with its small corbels, and the string course with its moulded supports, might be details from any old Scottish castle. The bell bears the date 1557. A curious relic of the older structure has, however, been discovered in the choir in the form of an antique wall-painting of St. Ninian.
The interior of the choir contains
Fig. 1606.—Turriff Church. Gateway to Courtyard.
a very interesting and remarkably picturesque series of monumental slabs, with a quantity of well-executed lettering. One of these tablets is to the memory of a member of the family of Barclay of Towie, of date 1636, with a Latin inscription still legible.
The churchyard contains a number of interesting monuments of the same date as the belfry.