36 REPORT OF MEETINGS FOR 1901 



that romantic dash and gallantry which we love to associate 

 with the lost cause of the Stuart Kings." 



On landing we found that time did not permit of a general 

 visit of the Club to Tantallon Castle, nor when we were 

 gathered together for dinner in the Canty Bay Hotel, at 

 4 o'clock, were we able to profit by Mr Goodchild's interesting 

 account of the geology of the Bass, which could not then 

 be read '• in extenso." Some went to catch their train from 

 Linton Station at 5 p.m., and the remainder drove by a 

 different route from the morning's, and in a rain that was 

 now torrential, towards Smeaton-Hepburn ; and one section 

 stopped on the way, for a while, at Whitekirk Church. Here 

 the parish minister, the Rev. Dr Waddell, kindly received 

 them, and explained various points of archseology and historical 

 interest connected with this church, and with the remains of 

 the other two, Auldhame and Tyninghame Churches, within 

 his parish. They admired the architecture of the gateway 

 and porch, and were interested by the curious unsymmetrical 

 groining of the vaulted roof ; and of other matters the minister 

 gave the following account. 



Note on Whitekirk Church. 

 By the Rev. Dr P. H. Waddell. 



The church now represents three parishes, and is in the 

 centre of the district which they originally occupied. The 

 parish of Auldhame was on the north, and that of Tyninghame 

 on the south, with Whitekirk between them. Theee were all 

 foundations of St. Baldred, and two of them claim his grave. 

 There are ruins of an ecclesiastical building, commonly called 

 a Priory, at Auldhame, and distinct traces of a churchyard ; 

 but the parish and church there were not renewed after the 

 Reformation. Of the church at Tyninghame two beautiful 

 Norman arches and some other remains are still standing, 

 and the church existed for worship until 1761. The history 

 of the Tyninghame Church is perhaps the most interesting of 

 the three, as we possess its session records from 1615 ; those 



