70 Chuecii of (St. John the Baptist, Dalky. 



Kenmure burial aisle had origiually formed a southern auuex or 

 transept to the chancel of the old Church of St. John. In its 

 Ijresent state it is structurally quite distinct from the parish 

 church, and separated from it by a narrow passage, g-ained chiefly 

 by cutting off its own north-western angle. The aisle measures 

 externally 22 feet by IS feet 7 inches, and internally 17 feet hy 

 14 feet 2 inches. The south gable is 2 feet 8 inches in thickness, 

 and the remaining walls about 2 feet 3 inches. The connection 

 between the Church of St. John and the aisle has been by a plain 

 rubble archway, without dressings or ornament of any kind. 

 This archway is 8 feet high and 4 feet 8 or 9 inches to the spring, 

 so that, although slightly pointed, it is practically a semi-circle, 

 and is now entirely closed by a 20-inch rubble blocking. Except 

 at one side, where a flag has been removed, the paved ingoing is 

 still intact. Apart from this communication with the old Church, 

 which would no doubt be used on occasion of interments, there is 

 also an external door in the west wall 2 feet 8 inches in width, 

 with freestone rybats and lintel, all very carefully hewn with a 

 plain quarter round on the rybat head. The only window is that 

 in the centre of the south gable, 6 feet in height by o feet 8 inches 

 in width, all hewn in the same careful fashion as the west door- 

 way. This window is closed by a massive antique grille, whicli 

 must, to all appearance, have been built in with the masonry at 

 the first, and there is a tradition that it is three hundred years old, 

 which would, of course, carry the aisle back to the IGth century. 

 Above the window there is a very simply moulded panel, contain- 

 ing a shield divided in pale, on the dexter side carrying- the three 

 boars' heads erased of the Gordons, and on the sinister side the 

 Scottish lion rampant, but without the tressure. The gable is 

 crow stepped Avitli plain, bold skewputs, and a finial of Jacobean 

 design atop. It is also quoined in freestone, and has been in 

 every way very carefully and substantially built. The walls, 

 which are 10 feet high, have no other openings save those men- 

 tioned, but in the south-east angle there is an aumbry, 1 foot 7 

 inches wide, 1 foot o inches deep, 1 foot inches high, and o feet 

 (■» inches from the sill to the floor. The original wall-head 

 coursing is all gone, but I found a small portion of it lying inside, 

 4 inches thick, with a simple cyma-recta moulding exactly similar 

 to that on the old burial enclosures in the lower part of the 

 churchyard. The aisle, which had been probably getting out of 



