[Illustration: FIG. 1190.--St. Mary’s, Whitekirk. East Gable.]
of the structure. It measures 13 feet wide by 9 feet deep internally,
and has a stone bench on each side. The entrance is by an open archway,
with clustered shafts, having enriched caps from which spring the bold
mouldings of the arch. At each of the outer angles of the porch is a
diagonal buttress having a niche on the inner face, and finished on the
top with crocketed pinnacles. Over the doorway there is a panel with
small buttresses at the jambs, and canopied head with scroll ornament
over.
The interior of the porch is roofed with pointed barrel vaulting, having
ribs springing from carved corbels. The door to the church is square
headed and is surmounted by a niche, which formerly contained a statue
of the Blessed Virgin.
The interior of the church (Fig. 1193) is very plain. The tower is
supported on arches at the crossing, which spring from attached piers
with moulded caps. The space over the crossing is vaulted with groins,
having a circular boss in the centre. The tower (see Fig. 1188) is
carried up with plain walls to two stories above the roof, and has in
the upper
[Illustration: FIG. 1191.--St. Mary’s, Whitekirk. View from North-West.]
part or belfry a window on each side, with central mullion, now much
decayed by the weather. A stair turret (Fig. 1194) is attached to the
north-west angle of the tower, and enters from the exterior. The north
wall of the nave has been altered at the point adjoining the tower.