134
DUNFERMLINE " (BENEDICTINE) 139
PAISLEY " (CLUNIACENSIAN) 148
KELSO " (TYRONENSIAN) 169
ARBROATH " " 177
MELROSE " (CISTERCIAN) 184

7. GENERAL SURVEY OF SCOTTISH MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE--
NORMAN 194
TRANSITION STYLE 197
FIRST POINTED PERIOD 198
MIDDLE POINTED PERIOD 201
LATE POINTED PERIOD 203

APPENDIX--

DEFINITION OF LEADING ARCHITECTURAL TERMS 209

INTRODUCTION

This book is designed to render to Scottish Churchmen the special
service of presenting to them, in a brief but comprehensive survey, the
record of their ecclesiastical history which is engraved in their
ecclesiastical architecture. There is no record so authentic as that
which is built in stone. There is none so sacred as that which attests
and illustrates the religion of our forefathers. Much of that record has
perished: enough remains to engage our reverent study and our dutiful
care. Foreign war and rapine have wasted and destroyed our heritage of
sacred places. Kelso, Jedburgh, Melrose, and Haddington fell before the
English invader. Iona was ravaged by the Dane, while yet the island
formed part of a Scandinavian diocese. Internal lawlessness and tribal
fury have wrought like disasters. Elgin, once "the fair glory of the
land," stands a forlorn monument of the savagery of a Highland chief.
St. Andrews, Lindores, Perth, Paisley, and many others bear witness to
the reckless outrage which cloaked its violence under the guise of
religious zeal. Of all our spoilers this has been the most destructive.
The pretence (for it often was nothing else) of "cleansing the
sanctuary" not only robbed the Church of many a priceless possession,
but begat, in the popular mind, a ruthless disregard of the sacred
associations of places where generation after generation had worshipped
God, and a coarse indifference to the solemnity of His ordinances,
which made it easy for those who should have been the guardians of the
churches to let t