the stair to the gallery. The sacrament house is of rude design and
workmanship, and is evidently of very late date. The ambry has an
opening 10½ inches in width, and its size over all is 2 feet 5 inches in
height by 21 inches in width. It has, as usual in such features, a broad
base surmounted by the recess to contain the consecrated host. The
opening is finished with an ogee arch-head having a cable-moulding on
the jambs and arch, and a fleur-de-lys on top. As usual the ambry is
[Illustration: FIG. 1393.--Airlie Church. Sacrament House.
(From Sketch kindly supplied by Mr. Archibald M‘Pherson, architect.)]
flanked by small buttresses. In the panels at the spandrils there are
carved on one side a cross with a crown of thorns, and on the other the
heart, with hands and feet showing the five wounds of the Passion.
The back of the ambry is formed with a stone containing the initials W.
F., and the arms of the Fentons of Baikie, which are turned upside down,
probably by mistake, when rebuilt in the present position.
The belfry of the church (Fig. 1394) is a good example of a structure of
that description of the date it bears (1783).