Additional Notices of Remains of Early Religious 

 Architecture in Berwickshire. By the President. 



PLATES T., IT., and III. 



Since the puhHcation, in- the Cluh's Proceedinos for 1890, 

 of my Notes on the Pre-Eeformatioa Churches of Berwickshire, 

 several works on the early ecclesiastical architecture of 

 Scotland have appeared. One of them, by Messrs Macgibbon 

 and E.OSS, is a production of the first importance. It has 

 done for our churches what the earlier and even more 

 elaborate work of these eminent architects did for the remains 

 of our ancient castles and palaces ; and we may be said to 

 owe to their labours the first complete and sj'stematic inves- 

 tigation into the religious architecture of Scotland that has 

 yet been undertaken. In another book, Ancient Towers and 

 Doorways, published in 1896, the late Mr Galletly's drawings 

 and photographs of many interesting Scottish churches, of the 

 Norman period especially, have been reproduced, accompanied 

 by descriptive and historical notes by Mr Andrew Taylor. 

 It is a satisfaction to find that in lioth of these works the more 

 notewortliy examples found in Berwickshire have received 

 a due share of illustration. 



The older Scottish ecclesiologists, with Mr Muir at their 

 head, were accustomed to recognize only two styles of Scottish 

 Gothic — the First-Pointed, nearly to-incident in point of time 

 with the same style in England, and the Second-Pointed, 

 embracing the period from the end of the thirteenth century till 

 the Reformation. The slight admixture of Perpendicular and 

 Flamboyant forms, and the other features introduced with these 

 towards the close of the Gothic period, did not escape notice ; 

 but they were not regarded as of sufficient importance to 

 demand recognition as an individual style. 



A different view now prevails. Messrs Macgibbon and Ross 

 have been careful to point out that at the close of the Second- 

 Pointed period religious architectural art in Scotland, while 

 combining features derived from the Perpendicular style in 

 England and the Flamboyant in France, presents several 

 characteristics that must be regarded as native and original, 

 and is fully entitled to be ranked as a distinct style, which 

 they designate Scottish Third-Pointed. Its distinguishing mark 

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