earlier church, is an interesting example of a Scottish church tower. It is quite plain in its lower stages, and has a corbelled out parapet at the top, which is reached by a stair in the projecting turret, seen in the sketch. The tower is a place of considerable strength, being vaulted on the ground floor, and is probably a building of the fifteenth century.
The manor of Greenlaw belonged to the Earls of Dunbar and Gospatrick, and the third Earl granted the church, in 1159, to the Abbey of Kelso. Greenlaw was one of the churches dedicated by Bishop David de Bernham.
INSCH CHURCH, Aberdeenshire.
The town of Insch is a station on the Great North of Scotland Railway
between Aberdeen and Huntly. The old parish church, which is
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Fig. 1552.—Insch Church. Front and Side View of Belfry.
