70 CuuRCH oF ST. JOHN THE Baptist, Datry. 
Kenmure burial aisle had originally formed a southern annex or 
transept to the chancel of the old Church of St. John. In its 
present state it is structurally quite distinct from the parish 
church, and separated from it by a narrow passage, gained chiefly 
by cutting off its own north-western angle. The aisle measures 
externally 22 feet by 18 feet 7 inches, and internally 17 feet by 
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 3 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, which 
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 16th 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 with plain, bold skewputs, and a finial of Jacobean 
design atop. Itis 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 3 inches deep, 1 foot 9 imches high, and 3 feet 
6 inches from the sill to the floor. The original wall-head 
coursing is all gone, but 1 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 
