monastery existed for about two hundred and fifty years, and in 1585
James VI. disponed to Sir Walter Dundas the whole revenue of the
establishment, “together with the kirk of the said place, and whole
bounds, with the steeple and houses above the same.” The place has ever
since remained in the possession of the same family.
The present structure is evidently, from its style, of a late date. The
construction of the vaulting, with its low arches at the crossing, and
pointed vault covered with stone roof over the choir; the plain outline
of the tower and walls, without buttress or break of any kind; and the
square lintelled windows, are all indications of a date about the end of
the fifteenth or beginning of the sixteenth century.
[Illustration: FIG. 1230.--Carmelite Friars’ Monastery.