internally, about 30 feet in length by 15 feet in width. There has been a door near the west end, both in the north and south walls, two windows in the south wall, and none in either of the north, east, or west walls. There is a recess for a benitier, an ambry, near the south door, and an ambry in the east wall. Some more ancient stones seem to have been
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Fig. 1423.—Auldcathie Church. Plan.
used in building the latter. The features are all so simple that it is difficult to fix the date of the edifice, but it does not appear to be very old.
In the ancient Taxatio this church is valued at only 4 marks. As it is not taxed in Bagimond's Roll, it appears to have belonged in the thirteenth century to some religious house.
RESTALRIG COLLEGIATE CHURCH, Mid-Lothian.[1]
According to the legendary history of the Blessed Virgin Triduan, Lestalrig or Restalrig, a village to the east of Edinburgh, might claim a very great antiquity. Triduan is said to have died at Restalrig in the year 510.
A church can be traced here as early as the twelfth century, and it afterwards became the parish church of Leith. This edifice is frequently mentioned in connection with gifts bestowed upon it. The church of Restalrig was erected into a Collegiate establishment by James III., and was rebuilt by him, as stated in the Papal Bull of 1487. James IV. was also a benefactor to the foundation, and endowed an additional chaplain in 1512, and twelve years later another rectory was annexed to the church by James V.
The edifice has unfortunately been almost entirely destroyed. In 1560 it was resolved "that the Kirk of Restalrig, as a monument of Idolatrie be
- ↑ See preface to Registrum of the Collegiate Churches of Mid-Lothian, by D. Laing, p. xliii.
