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flanked by small buttresses. In the panels at the spandrils there are carved on one side a cross with a crown of thorns, and on the other the heart, with hands and feet showing the five wounds of the Passion.

The back of the ambry is formed with a stone containing the initials W. F., and the arms of the Fentons of Baikie, which are turned upside down, probably by mistake, when rebuilt in the present position.

The belfry of the church (Fig. 1394) is a good example of a structure of that description of the date it bears (1783).



INVERGOWRIE CHURCH, Forfarshire.


A simple oblong ruin situated about three miles west from Dundee. The site is associated with the Celtic Church, and is one of the churches believed to have been founded by St. Boniface, in Angus, about the

Fig. 1395.—Invergowrie Church. Plan.

beginning of the seventh century, Restennet being another.[1] Several fine sculptured stones of an early period are still preserved in the building.

Fig. 1396.—Invergowrie Church. View from South-East.

  1. Celtic Scotland, Vol. II. p. 230.