250 REPORTS OF MEETINGS FOR 19U 



Dunbar for Woodhall and Thurston. 



The third meeting was held at Dunbar on Wednesday, 

 26th July, in beautiful weather. Among those present were 

 the following: — Kev. James F. Leishman, M.A., President; 

 Rev. J. J. M. L. Aiken, B.D., Secretary; Misses Aiken, Ay ton; 

 Mrs Bertalot, Ayton ; Miss Boyd, Faldonside ; Mr James 

 Brown, Jun., Galashiels ; Mr Reginald Collie and Mrs Collie, 

 Stoneshiel ; Rev. Matthew Culley, Coupland Castle ; Sir 

 George B. Douglas, Bart., Springwood Paik; Mr J. C. Hodgson, 

 Alnwick ; Rev. John MacLaren and Miss MacLaren, Ayton ; 

 Mr J. McAninly, Coupland Castle ; Mr Henry Paton, Edin- 

 burgh ; Mr Harry Sanderson, Galashiels ; Mr Jas. A. Somervail, 

 Hoselaw; Miss Simpson, Coldingham; Mr T. B. Short, Berwick; 

 Mr George Sidey, Netherbyers ; and Mr Edward Willoby, 

 Berwick. The members assembled at the Railway Station on 

 the arrival of the " market train " from Berwick (9-50 a.m.), 

 and walked to the Parish Church, where they were received by 

 Rev. William Borland, B.D., who kindly conducted them over it, 

 and supplied interesting information regarding its foundation 

 and history. 



Early in the 13th century a church existed, which in course 

 of time was erected into a Collegiate charge, 

 Dunbar the first of the kind in Scotland, and to it in all 



Church. probability was added the extension of 1342, 



which forms the composite building, with blue 

 slates, figured in a drawing upon the walls of the present vestry. 

 The modern commodious and well appointed place of worship in 

 z'ed sandstone, comprising a spacious nave and a square tower on 

 the Western gable, was designed in 1819 by James Gillespie, 

 Edinburgh, and during the incumbency of the late Rev. 

 Robert Buchanan was beautified by the addition of a lofty 

 apse, which necessitated the removal from its original site, in the 

 centre of the East gable, of the remarkable mural monument in 



