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its present height 240 years after the building of the body of 

 the church. The roof is covered with wrought ashlar, so jointed 

 and overlapped that the rain is carried off as if by one piece. 

 The interior and exterior of the body of the church are built of 

 polished freestone, quarried in the district. The east end, and 

 also the two transepts, terminate in the three sides of a polygon. 

 There is an elegant three light, and also two smaller two light 

 windows in the east end ; while in each of tlie transepts there 

 are three two light lancet windows of equal measurements. 

 There are, in addition to the above, two large single windows to 

 the south, and two double lights to the north. The walls are 

 ornamented and strengthened with nineteen buttresses, on the 

 top of which are carved figures, now much worn by time and 

 want of due care. The dimensions of the church within the 

 walls are — entire length, 96 feet, width, 23 feet in nave and 

 chancel ; breadth at transepts, 49 feet ; height from floor to the 

 point of the arch, 36 feet ; side walls, 26 feet. The interior of 

 the church underwent very extensive renovation in 1861. 

 Several tablets are placed in the church, and one of these states 

 that the clock in the tower was given by the Right Honourable 

 Mary Anne Sarah Robertson, Baroness Marjoribanks of Lady- 

 kirk, in grateful remembrance of, and thankfulness for many 

 mercies and blessings vouchsafed to and enjoyed by her during 

 her possession of the estate, and also in thankful commemoration 

 of the 14th day of October 1881, wlien, amidst a windstorm of 

 unusual severity, disastrous in its effects to persons and property 

 both on sea and on land, and appalling to all people, a merciful 

 Providence was graciously pleased to protect this parish and its 

 inhabitants by the preservation of human life within its bounds, 

 1882. There was evidence above the main south door on the 

 outside of a tablet having been inserted there originally, but 

 the tablet, with whatever it might have told, had long since 

 entirely disappeared. On the outside wall above the north door, 

 and looking to Scotland, there was similar evidence that a 

 tablet of some character had been once placed; and tradition has 

 it that the arms of Scotland, decorated with the Order of the 

 Garter, were carved upon that now lost stone. A bust of James 

 IV. is temporarily placed in the church for safety till a proper 

 place can be found for it. What was now known as the parish 

 of Ladykirk, was composed of the two old parishes of Upsetling- 

 ton and Horndean. The present church was in the old parish 



