186 Tlip Prfi- Reformation Churches of Berwickshire. 



and elaborate, but, for the most part, stiff and inelegant, design. 

 The base- table rests upon a square plinth, and has a simple slope 

 on the upper side. Two string-courses are carried round the build- 

 ing a short distance above the basement, the upper one rounded 

 above, the lower sloping, and both hollow or concave below. 

 They are only 1 2 inches a[)art throughout the greater part of 

 their course ; but the upper string, which passes immediately 

 underueath the external sills of the windows, rises at the 

 terminations of the chancel and transepts fully 32 inches above 

 the other, the windows at these parts being placed higher in the 

 wall than elsewhere. A slightly projecting cornice, with 

 a hollow on the under side, runs along the top of the wall 

 beneath the eaves. 



The windows are mostly plain, lanciform openings, divided into 

 two pointed liglits by a monial branching at the top, an ex- 

 ception being the east window of the chancel, which is wider thau 



