is carved on the east gable, but the building undoubtedly is, in part at
least, of older date. There are a great many stones, pieces of window
tracery, and other carved work lying about the churchyard, which show
that there was a former building, probably of fifteenth century work,
here, which was doubtless in part taken down and rebuilt in the
seventeenth century. The chancel arch (Fig. 1508) belongs to this
earlier church. It is 12 feet 3 inches wide and is acutely pointed; the
wall is about 3 feet 2 inches thick. The mouldings of the arch consist
of double hollows, as shown on section (Fig. 1509), with a cap moulding
of the form shown on the same figure.
[Illustration: FIG. 1512.--St. Mary’s, Auchterhouse. South Doorway.]
The south doorway in the chancel (Fig. 1510) also belongs to the earlier
church. The moulded jambs (Fig. 1511) abut against a square lintel,
somewhat in the same manner as occurs in one of the windows in the tower
at South Queensferry. The jambs rise at the base from a splay sloping
inwards. The doorway to the nave (Fig. 1512) is more classic in design,
and is of the seventeenth century. No other features of the church,
except its sundials (see _The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of
Scotland_, Vol. V.), call for special notice.