These churches were introduced into a work on the domestic architecture
of the country, in order to illustrate the influence of the domestic
style on the ecclesiastical architecture of this period. Many of these
edifices were, therefore, only partially illustrated, and it has been
thought desirable to treat some of them more fully in this book, so as
to complete the illustration and description of their architecture.
The examples which are now given will amply illustrate the remaining
specimens which still survive of this somewhat heterogeneous epoch.
Most of the churches of the seventeenth century are either very poor
imitations of Gothic work or tasteless examples of plain walls, while a
few contain the germs of what might have been wrought into a picturesque
style, founded on the domestic architecture of the period. Such, for
example, are the churches of Stirling (west end), Anstruther Easter, and
Pittenweem.
Several of the monuments of the period are also given.
The following examples are arranged in alphabetical order.