CuHurcH or St. JoHN THE Baptist, DAtry. 71 
repair and unroofed, has been very efficiently protected by broad 
copestones, which have also been carried up the back of the 
skews. At the north-east angle, externally, a most interesting 
feature occurs in the remains of one side of a window, undoubtedly 
pertaining to the old church, and to which the aisle had originally 
been built as closely as possible. There are three freestone 
rybats still remaining, with a bold splay externally, then a glass 
groove with check, and splayed ingoing internally. This shows 
clearly that the Church of St. John had extended still further to 
the east, although from the rapid rise of the ground in that direc- 
tion the extension could not have been great. The window, of 
which a small portion thus fortunately remains, must have lighted 
the chancel, and if the Kenmure burial aisle did not open directly 
from the chancel it must have been very close to it. As previously 
mentioned, a considerable slice having been taken of the north- 
west angle to form the passage, all information as to the connec- 
tion at this point between the aisle and the old church is 
necessarily lost. It is, however, very interesting to know that so 
recently as 1880, in the ground immediately to the west of the 
aisle, foundations of the old Church were encountered. No inter- 
ments had ever been made in this spot, but in the above year, 
a burial having taken place, the ground was trenched, and a 
monument erected, the old found being broken up, and cart-loads 
of rubble stones removed. So strong, indeed, was the building that 
it was almost necessary to employ gunpowder to break it up. 
Most unfortunate operations certainly for archeology, seeing that 
these foundations ought rather to have been brought up to the 
surface, and so permanently commemorated than destroyed, and 
this should certainly be done in the intermediate spaces between 
the burial aisle and the projection of the church at the south-west 
corner. This clearly indicates how the south wall of the old 
church ran, but beyond this all is uncertainty. 
We have already seen that in the three rybats and ingoing of 
a window at the north-east angle of the Kenmure aisle, there still 
exists in situ, saving the aisle itself, the only extant portion above 
ground of the old Church of St. John. In the form of reused 
stones, however, the Parish Church itself contains considerable 
traces of its historic predecessor. At all the salient angles of this 
building shallow projections in the form of pilasters, 2 feet 3 ches 
on the face, are carried up to the wall head and there terminate 
