 | An image should appear at this position in the text. To use the entire page scan as a placeholder, edit this page and replace "{{missing image}}" with "{{raw image|The ecclesiastical architecture of Scotland ( Volume 3).djvu/520}}". Otherwise, if you are able to provide the image then please do so. For guidance, see Wikisource:Image guidelines and Help:Adding images. |  |
Fig. 1459.—Ecclesiamagirdle or Exmagirdle Chapel. Round-headed Window at East End.
altar. Adjoining this, on the north wall, is a small ambry, checked for a door flush with the inside wall.
FORGANDENNY CHURCH, Perthshire.[1]
The small fragment of ancient work left at Forgandenny, a few miles
south of Perth, along with the more important remains in the district,
point to the importance of Strathearn in early times. That this has been
originally a Norman church there can be no doubt, and it is suggestive
and interesting to find such work here and at Dunning, each about two
miles distant from Forteviot, the residence of the early Pictish kings.
The building is still in use as the parish church, but has been greatly altered at various times, and now it is only in some bits of detail that its antiquity can be detected. It measures on the inside (Fig. 1460) 70 feet 7 inches long by 21 feet 7 inches wide.
The east wall is in the main of Norman masonry. It has a splayed base, which returns at each corner, but is soon lost, as shown on Plan, by
- ↑ In connection with Forgandenny Church we are indebted for assistance to Mr. Collingwood Lindsay Wood of Freeland and Mr. T. T. Oliphant, St. Andrews, by the former of whom certain works were done to enable the building to be examined.
