44 TRANSACTIONS. 
The discrepancy is accounted for by supposing the design of the 
church to have been originally cruciform, in which case the bays 
without arches would represent the joinings of the transepts at 
the crossings. The side walls of the aisles, which were finished 
with “cornices” and “rustic corners,” were of equal height with 
the middle walls; and the roof was a triple one, being described 
as consisting of “the middle roof,” which covered the body of the 
kirk, and “ the two side roofs,” which covered the aisles. In the 
east end of the body of the kirk, which was a gable, were two 
large windows, and there was a doorway in its west wall. Besides 
the west doorway there were four others, two being in the south 
wall and two in the north one; and in each of the aisles there 
were four wiadows, one being in the east end, two in the side wall, 
and one inthe west end. One of the west windows is described as 
a large Venetian window of one hundred and seventeen lozenges. 
Admission of additional light was provided for by means of sky- 
lights placed in the roof. 
The foundations of the Old Church, zz stu, determine the 
position and extent of the central division or “ body of the kirk,” 
and its two sides and east end would correspond with those of the 
central division of the existing church respectively, but its west end 
was four feet short of the existing west wall. They also show that 
the arcades stopped short of extending up to the east end of the 
building. Other remains indicate that some of the pillars were 
octagonal, that the arch-rings were chamfered, and that the gable 
was of a high pitch and finished with a chamfered skew-stone, 
having a cross on the apex. 
Attached to the west end of the church was a thick short 
tower, the room within which was known as the “ Session” or 
“ Session-house.” Subscriptions were raised in the year 1740 for 
“the raising and exalting of the Old Kirk steeple to bear some 
resemblance to other spires,” as it is expressed in a minute of the 
Seven Trades, but the walls proving to be insufficient, the tower, 
instead of being raised, was taken down, when the existing spire 
was erected on the same site, against the end of the old church. 
Passing to the consideration of the interior fittings of the 
church, of which we have some early glimpses in the Kirk-Session 
books, and a very full “ Abbreviate of the Minutes of the Commit- 
tee of the Town Council, Heritors, and Kirk-Session of Dumfries, 
appointed by them to regulate the seats in the said church,” in ~ 
the year 1695. On 12th April of that year it was appointed “ that 
