18 Tue GREYFRIARS AND THE Moat Brae. 
come in fairly well, not only from inhabitants of the burgh ‘ui 
from natives in other parts. 
The contract is too long for reproduction here. Mack, who 
is described as “masson att Cally,’’ undertook to erect a kirk 
on the same site 66 feet long by 204 feet wide, with a large door 
in each gavel and a “small door for the minister with a window 
at top.’’ Six other arched windows 84 feet high gave the light- 
ing ; “a sufficient jamm,’’ 30 feet long by 204 feet wide, was to be 
added, with four arched windows and a gavel door. A gallery 
for the magistrates extended from the jamm to the church gavel 
“with a door and stair without the church on the north side 
for an entry to it.” Similar provision was made for another 
gallery. The corners, doors, windows, and skews were to be of 
hewn freestone, and the whole work roughcast without. Mack 
was to use the old materials and to “redd out the whole walls 
of the foundations.” The jamm was to cost £93, but that was 
not paid by the town. 
From the terms of the contract it is somewhat difficult at 
first sight to grasp the form of the church, but a plan of the 
burgh and its environments in the early years of the nineteenth 
century shows that it was in the form of a cross, and indeed much 
on the principle of the present Parish Church. An original 
water colour sketch at St. Mary’s Isle, shows the interior. 
The jamm spoken of in the contract was the St. 
Mary’s Isle aisle, or “Country Aisle,’’ as it was more often 
termed. The pulpit faced this portion of the church, the 
minister having the Magistrates’ gallery on his nght and the 
gallery of the Incorporated Trades on his left, while the “ Castle 
Aisle,” the burial place of the Lords Kirkcudbright, in later 
years the nucleus of the Old Church School, was immediately 
behind, and had not been involved in the building operations. 
The plan is valuable as showing landmarks in the town which 
have disappeared in the course of the years, including the creex 
on the east, running across St. Cuthbert Street, with three 
branches. The centre branch in ancient times ran in a southerly 
direction to join the old burgh fosse near the site of the Meikle 
Yett. The eastern branch ran through the hollow between the 
present Parish Church and Daar Lodge, and the third branch 
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